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INSIDE THE O'BRIENS
By: Lisa Genova
Simon & Schuster Gallery Books
April 2015
On Sale: April 7, 2015
Featuring: Katie O'Brien; Joe O'Brien
352 pages
ISBN: 147671777X
EAN: 9781476717777
Kindle: B00LQMDZPI
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Joe OβBrien is a forty-four-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father of four children in their twenties, and respected officer, Joe begins experiencing bouts of disorganized thinking, uncharacteristic temper outbursts, and strange, involuntary movements. He initially attributes these episodes to the stress of his job, but as these symptoms worsen, he agrees to see a neurologist and is handed a diagnosis that will change his and his familyβs lives forever: Huntingtonβs Disease. Huntingtonβs is a lethal neurodegenerative disease with no treatment and no cure. Each of Joeβs four children has a 50 percent chance of inheriting their fatherβs disease, and a simple blood test can reveal their genetic fate. While watching her potential future in her fatherβs escalating symptoms, twenty-one-year-old daughter Katie struggles with the questions this test imposes on her young adult life. Does she want to know? What if sheβs gene positive? Can she live with the constant anxiety of not knowing? As Joeβs symptoms worsen and heβs eventually stripped of his badge and more, Joe struggles to maintain hope and a sense of purpose, while Katie and her siblings must find the courage to either live a life βat riskβ or learn their fate.
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