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Stroke Survivors (Jossey Bass/Aha Press Series)

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Stroke Survivors is a worthy contribution to the field of caregiving and recovery from one of life'most devastating experience. In its first pages, the reader is drawn into the riveting experience of several personal accounts chronicling the inner experience of the stroke victim--the pain, the terror, the confusion, the disbelief, and the sudden isolation of having speech, organized thought, and/or controlled movement stripped away.

The problem with the book is its lack of focus. Written by a stroke survivor and two clinicins, the book is forever changing from voice to voice in a rather meandering style that leaves the reader a little disoriented. The central focus ofthe book is perhaps too wide-angled: Is this a book (as the title implies) about stroke survivors? If so, then why not make the case studies easier to follow,less laden with social work jargon. Is it an academic work? Then why not clarify the research questions and draw conclusions that are a little crisper? Is it a book about caregivers? Then why not draw a more clear portrait about one or several caregiver? The book is actually filled with helpful bits of information. But its meandering style and lack of focus make much of that information inaccessible to the reader.