Left Neglected is about Harvard grad, successful business woman Sarah Nickerson. She's a woman who "has it all": an equally successful and loving husband; 3 relatively healthy kids and a home in a fairly affluent neighborhood in Boston. The one thing she doesn't seem to have is a minute to spare in her busy 70-hour work week. She and her husband, Bob, however, seem to balance it all out equally, sharing in shuttling their kids around, preparing dinners etc. On a busy Friday (Friday is the one day that Sarah and Bob don't have an assigned person to shuttle the kids so they usually "throw" for it - rock/paper/scissors) Sarah is on her way to work with a few unexpected minutes to spare, having won the "throw" when, while searching for her cell phone, she takes her eyes off the road for a split-second and ends up totaling her car and suffering a traumatic brain injury in the process. Sarah is forced, through her injury, to relearn parts of her life and body that she always took for granted. She is forced to slow down and in doing so, she learns that life doesn't have to be rushed and having it all can be simple and enjoyable.
I loved this book. I loved the characters. There wasn't a character that bothered me or annoyed me or seemed unrealistic. Lisa Geneova, a neuroscientist in her "real life" gave such great explanations for the injury that Sarah suffered and turned what could have been a tragedy into something miraculous - a second chance at life. Can't wait to read her first novel (Still Alice).
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