{"id":42658,"date":"2017-08-29T11:14:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T15:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=42658"},"modified":"2017-08-27T15:24:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T19:24:51","slug":"tell-everything-dont-remember-stroke-changed-life-christine-hyung-oak-lee-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/tell-everything-dont-remember-stroke-changed-life-christine-hyung-oak-lee-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Me Everything You Don\u2019t Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-42313 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/05\/Tell-Me-Everything-You-Dont-Remember-530x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/05\/Tell-Me-Everything-You-Dont-Remember-530x800.jpg 530w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/05\/Tell-Me-Everything-You-Dont-Remember.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>Ten years ago, Lee was married to her college boyfriend, living in Berkeley, and working as the human resources director at a small company. On New Year\u2019s Eve 2006, Lee suffered a stroke. She was 33. She would spend the better part of a decade recovering; in the process, she lost her short-term memory, her marriage, her sense of self. By the time she wrote this memoir, she had become a mother and reinvented herself into the person she was meant to be.<\/p>\n<p>As compelling as Lee\u2019s story is \u2013 her 2014\u00a0<em>Buzzfeed<\/em>\u00a0essay, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/xtinehlee\/i-had-a-stroke-at-33?utm_term=.ohNmnANpd#.xh37aGoL1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I Had a Stroke at 33<\/a>,\u201d went viral \u2013 it falls flat as literature, bogged down especially by repetition, teetering between a disturbing mix of self-deprecating humor and blinding desperation.<\/p>\n<p>Narrator Emily Woo Zeller narrates as if she\u2019s only too aware of the book\u2019s flaws, merely pushing through to get to the end, especially when facing daunting stretches of medical and psychological jargon. That Lee and Zeller share an Asian background also doesn\u2019t ensure an automatic match, nor does Zeller having grown up hearing Chinese spoken at home mean she can accurately pronounce Korean, which is Lee\u2019s heritage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict<\/strong>\u00a0Despite engrossing true-life experiences, this work ultimately disappoints.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: Modifed from <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.libraryjournal.com\/2017\/08\/media\/audio\/audiobooks-christine-hyung-oak-lee-xpress-reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Audiobooks: Xpress Reviews,&#8221; <em>Library Journal<\/em>, August 10, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago, Lee was married to her college boyfriend, living in Berkeley, and working as the human resources director at a small company. On New Year\u2019s Eve 2006, Lee suffered a stroke. She was 33. 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