LEFT NEGLECTED by Lisa Genova

Finished Mo 11/17/14

The November selection for the Contemporary Book Club

Bob and Sarah Nickerson. They live in Wellmont, a Boston suburb.
Charlie, Lucy, and Linus
Martha- Sarah's mother who has a house on Cape Cod. They were estranged because Sarah's brother, Nate drowned when they were children and Martha was crippled by depression and ignored Sarah as she grew up.
Berkley- Placement firm that Sarah worked for

Heidi- A neighbor of  Sarah's. They are acquaintances who met when they dropped their children off at school.  She becomes Sarah's therapist at Baldwin.

Mike Green- the snowboard instructor in the mountain lodge in Vermont.  NEHSA New England Handicapped Sports Association

Lisa Genova—whose novel Still Alice is soon to be a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, and Kristen Stewart

Learn to live simpler and deeper. 
Reconnect to people; 
Visits the office after four months on medical leave, and although she makes a positive impression on the boss and co-workers, this is when and where she realizes that it would be a mistake to come back. She has learned from her inactivity that she really wasn't 'doing nothing', and that really her hyperactive life offered a very limited payback.

Gratitude vs. Attitude Sarah misreads this very important theme of the novel when she was in the hospital at Baldwin.