Inside the OBriens - Lisa Genova
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Skipp Sudduth
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Contemporary
Joe OBrien is a 44-year-old Boston police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, a proud father of four children in their 20s, and a respected, seasoned law enforcement officer, Joe begins experiencing bouts of disorganized thinking, uncharacteristic temper outbursts, and strange, involuntary movements. He initially attributes these episodes to aging and the cumulative physical and psychological stress of his job, but as these symptoms worsen, he agrees to see a neurologist and is handed a diagnosis that will change his and his familys lives forever: Huntingtons disease., Huntingtons is a lethal neurodegenerative disease with no treatment and no cure. And it is genetic. Each of Joes four children has a 50 percent chance of inheriting their fathers disease, and a simple blood test can reveal their genetic fate. While watching their potential futures in their fathers escalating symptoms, the children struggle with the questions this
