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Brain Work

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This is a life-altering kind of book that kind of creeps up on you unawares. You think you're just wandering into a regular book of psychological fiction--with characters suffering from OCD, Tourette's, brain trauma, and so forth--but somewhere in the middle of it all Guista transports you to a search for the soul, or at least the mind, or a Self with a big S. But you don't know, after reading these often moving, sometimes humorous, always challenging stories whether it is your mind or soul or SELF reading the book or if it's merely brain chemistry. There's plenty here: psychological disaster, philosophical rumination, drug-induced euphoria. But there is always more. This book will stay with you months later.

This is a fascinating study of brain malfunctions. A little on the intellectual side, but definitely worth the trouble, especially the stories "Filling the Spaces Between Us" and "The Year of Release." "Down to the Roots" was heartbreaking.