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One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing by Diane Ackerman

One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing

Diane Ackerman

336 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
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One day Ackerman's husband, Paul West, an exceptionally gifted wordsmith and intellectual, suffered a terrible stroke. When he regained awareness he was afflicted with aphasia--loss of language--and could utter only a single syllable: "mem." The s...

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