Il s'agit d'un roman original inspiré de faits vécus. À travers l'histoire de Norah, le lecteur découvre certains aspects moins connus du fonctionnement du cerveau humain et de la création de l'identité. Les deuils liés à une perte de mémoire et la résilience de l'être humain sont au coeur du mystérieux cheminement de Norah.
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The part that amazed me though, was that my body remembered how to ski (…) For some reason it is really hard to make people understand that the mind isn’t just in the brain, it is also in all parts of the body.
There may always be gaps and you must accept the damage that was done to your brain. We don’t get a new brain you know and it doesn’t have spare parts, it is not like a hip or a knee replacement. We have to allow the brain to make new pathways to understanding, to detour around the damaged, dead areas.
The right music helps the mind to focus, keeps the creative juices flowing and stops destructive thinking from taking over. The right music takes the edge off those panicky feelings of self-doubt that can so easily take over.
mystère, auteure canadienne, spiritualité, traumatisme crânien, amnésie, mémoire, changement de personnalité, résilience
Happiness isn’t some sort of reward for good behaviour; it is an inner light (…)