Alternating between fascination and frustration, she relearns and re-experiences many of the things we take for granted-reading a book, understanding idioms, even sharing a “first kiss”-and begins to reconcile “The Girl I Used to Be” with “The Girl I Am Now.” For fans of Brain on Fire and My Stroke of Insight, the deeply personal and powerful A Stitch of Time is an “engrossing” ( Publishers Weekly) journey of self-discovery, resilience, and hope.Dealing with the aftereffects of an aneurysm through a love of cooking. A Stitch of Time is the remarkable result, an Oliver Sacks–like case study of a brain slowly piecing itself back together, featuring clinical research about aphasia and linguistics, interwoven with Lauren’s narrative and actual journal entries that marked her progress.
Soon after, Lauren began a journal, to chronicle her year following the rupture. She returned to her childhood home to recover, grappling with a muted inner monologue and fractured sense of self. The way she perceived her environment and herself had profoundly changed, her entire identity seemed crafted around a language she could no longer access. At any other period of her life, this diagnosis would have been a devastating blow. This would be shocking news for anyone, but Lauren was a voracious reader, an actress, director, and at the time of the event, pursuing her PhD.
She woke up in a hospital with serious deficiencies to her reading, speaking, and writing abilities, and an unfamiliar diagnosis: aphasia. Lauren Marks was twenty-seven, touring a show in Scotland with her friends, when an aneurysm ruptured in her brain and left her fighting for her life. “Readers will be compelled by this illuminating debut memoir…a captivating” ( Kirkus Reviews) account of one woman’s journey to regain her language and identity after a brain aneurysm steals her ability to communicate.
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