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You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know: A True Story of Family, Face Blindness, and Forgiveness Reprint Edition
Author(s): Heather Sellers (Author)
- Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Date: October 4, 2011
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 368 pages
- ISBN-10: 1594485402
- ISBN-13: 9781594485404
Book Description
Heather Sellers is face-blind—that is, she has prosopagnosia, a rare neurological condition that describes the inability to recognize faces. Growing up, unaware of the reason for her perpetual confusion and anxiety, she took what cues she could from speech, hairstyle, and gait. The truth was revealed two decades later when Heather took the man she would marry home to meet her parents and discovered the astonishing truth about her family, herself, and living with mental illness. In this uplifting memoir, Sellers illuminates a deeper truth: that even in the most chaotic and heartbreaking of families, love may be seen and felt.
Editorial Reviews
Review
–The New York Times Book Review
“Never forget a face? What if you couldn’t remember any? Sellers…learns to appreciate the upside: Being blind to faces makes it easier to see herself and those she loves as they really are.”
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“Although [Sellers] can’t recognize others, in this book she has managed to find herself.”
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“Stunning…This is a memoir to be devoured in great chunks. The pleasure of reading it derives both from its graceful style and from its ultimate lesson: that seeing our past for what it really was, and forgiving those involved, frees us up to love them all the more, despite their (and our) limitations.”
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