From the publisher:
No other writer can blendthe science of the brain with the love of language like Diane Ackerman. In thisextraordinary memoir, she opens a window into the experience ofwordlessness the language paralysis called aphasia. In narrating the recoveryof her husband, Paul West, from a stroke that reduced his vast vocabulary to asingle syllable, she evokes the joy and mystery of the brain s ability to findand connect words. Deeply rewarding to readers of all kinds, Ackerman has givenus a literary love story, accessible insight into the science and medicine ofbrain injury, and invaluable spiritual sustenance in the face of life s myriadphysical sufferings.

WW Norton & Co | Paperback 336 pp. |ISBN: 9780393341744