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Original Title:	Inside the O'Briens
ISBN:	147671777X (ISBN13: 9781476717777)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2015)

Inside the O'Briens

Lisa Genova

Hardcover | Pages: 343 pages

Rating: 3.99 | 40609 Users | 5404 Reviews

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Title	:	Inside the O'Briens
Author	:	Lisa Genova
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 343 pages
Published	:	April 7th 2015 by Gallery Books
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Audiobook. Medical

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Joe O’Brien 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 family’s lives forever: Huntington’s Disease.

Huntington’s is a lethal neurodegenerative disease with no treatment and no cure. Each of Joe’s four children has a 50 percent chance of inheriting their father’s disease, and a simple blood test can reveal their genetic fate. While watching her potential future in her father’s 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 she’s gene positive? Can she live with the constant anxiety of not knowing?

As Joe’s symptoms worsen and he’s 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 “at risk” or learn their fate.

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I very much enjoyed Genovas earlier novel Still Alice about Alzheimer's and felt that she dealt sensitively and convincingly with the effects it has on all those involved when a diagnosis hits a family. Unfortunately she has not been so successful in her attempts to write the same book again, this time focussing on Huntingtons. I cant help feeling she (or her publishers) decided it would be a good idea to cash in on her earlier success by choosing another devastating disease and finding a story

Imagine you've seemed jittery and moody lately, your speech is slurring occasionally, and man, those involuntary twitches in your face and leg are driving you and those around you batsh%! crazy. These are just some of the symptons of Huntington's Disease, a heritary affliction that lies dormant in you until you are approaching middle age and then gives you 10 years more after that. Ten torturous years, because you will be fully aware of your slide into hell. So by the time you find out you have

Pass the tissues...this one is a tearjerker (pronounced here as teeya jahkah). Both tragic and triumphant, this moving story was very difficult for me to put down. I was invested and engaged from the first page. Once again the incomparable Lisa Genova gives a face to a rare but devastating disease and places us in the home, heart, and mind of a family left to live with a diagnosis that has leveled them at the knees and will change all of their lives forever. This is a diagnosis that makes one

Lisa Genova does it again. Highly recommended for all sorts of readers. How she can take such heart wrenching medical topics and tell such important stories is such a gift. Thanks to Gallery Books for a free copy, and I am so glad to report this is one author I am keeping up with. And so well worth it. More research to cure this so importantly needed.If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring

So heart-sick over this tale. "Inside the O'Briens" is a humble, yet shining banner that raises awareness for Huntington's Disease. This is a powerhouse of a story; an intimate portrait about a family facing an epic issue. The strength of this story is Genova's expert ability to provide an instant familiarity with all the characters and what's inside their heads, especially 'Joe' - the old-school cop (and head of the family) who toughs everything out instead of going to doctors or counselors.

To sum up in one word: Meh. In one sentence: stereotypical characters who have to face a single dilemma which can be solved in one of two ways and some choose one and some the other. The rest of this review is an elucidation of those two points.First there was Still Alice which was a brilliant story of the devastation of early-onset Alzheimer's told by Alice herself. Then there was Left Neglected, about the disorder where the body does not recognise one half of the world, including itself. This

What a wonderful book. We are introduced to an Irish Catholic family from Boston, the O'Briens. Joe and his wife Rosie have four young adult children, JJ, Meg, Patrick and Katie. Joe has served on the BPD for over 20 years when he begans having problems and is diagnosed with a rare movement disorder, Huntington's Diease. It's a progressive condition with no cure and there's a 50/50 chance of his children having the gene to develop HD. I loved the O'Brien family, well developed characters that I