You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know by Heather Sellers is the story of one woman's quest to understand a little known disability. Sellers has prosopagnosia, or face-blindness, something that she only recently realized she suffered. All her life she has had trouble recognizing people, but did not know that this was abnormal. In her quest for knowledge about face-blindness, she explores her childhood to determine if her mentally-ill mother or her alcoholic father could be the source of her own problems.
I found myself racing through the book to learn more about her childhood as well as her present day mistakes in introducing herself to long-known acquaintances. Once she ran up and kissed the wrong man in the airport thinking it was her boyfriend.
The book can seem disjointed at times, but is still an enjoyable and quick read worth considering for your own reading lists.
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2 comments:
Sounds like a good read. I guess this condition is all the rage. Now Oliver Sachs says he has it, and has a new book out about it.
--Jenni
Sounds like a good read. I guess this condition is all the rage. Now Oliver Sachs says he has it, and has a new book out about it.
--Jenni
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