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You're Not You

Apr 7, 2008 | Occupational Therapy

My good friend Keith has the following book recommendation:

Last year, I read a great novel: Click
here: Amazon.com: You’re Not You: A Novel: Michelle Wildgen: Books
.
It’s about a 20 year old girl who is a college student and who becomes an
attendant for a woman with ALS.
The student narrates it,
has no experience, yet they develop an interesting friendship. One of the
reasons I liked it is the author doesn’t sugar-coat the disability, and
explicitly describes the woman’s ADLs. There’s also a subplot involving
the woman wanting to divorce her husband.