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Summary: An unusual and uncommonly moving family memoir, with a twist that gives new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgiveness. The author is face blind--that is, she has prosopagnosia, a rare neurological condition that prevents her from reliably recognizing people's faces. Growing up, she took what cues she could from speech, hairstyle, and gait, but she sometimes kissed a stranger, thinking he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2010
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Summary: At her twentieth high school reunion, author and creative writing professor Heather Sellers discovered that she had inherited illness: face-blindness. In a normal brain, a series of processes in the fusiform face area allow people to recognize old faces. But in Sellers' case, these processes do not occur. Here, Sellers recounts how she has coped with her condition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2010