Christie Schwalbe

I truly wanted to believe in this story as a lover of words, and language, and women’s rights. However, as a Speech Language Pathologist who daily treats adults who have difficulty with traumatic brain injuries, aphasia, word finding, verbal expression, I am horribly taken back at the misrepresentation of what happens to one with a brain injury that impacts communication and the primitive explanation of this in the book. Teaching one Esperanto (a formulated and fake language) when their native language has been impaired by brain injury is not the solution. The only story I find more off point and more damaging to families is The Notebook, which shows the most inaccurate description of Alzheimer’s disease ever.