Stroke and the Family: A New Guide.

OVERVIEW

In Stroke and the Family: A New Guide, Joel Stein shows the many faces of stroke and the people it strikes.

• A young woman suffers a stroke; she rebuilds her career and personal life, but not before her marriage falls apart.
• An eighty-year-old man dies unexpectedly of stroke, leaving his grown sons to wonder whether they are genetically predisposed to stroke.
• A recently retired woman confronts her future with a husband suddenly disabled by stroke.
  • How can she help her husband?
  • Will he ever recover?
  • How will she cope with her own emotional stress?