An Anthropologist On MarsRecommendations

Dr. Sacks offers the same empathy, lyrical insight, and contagious sense of wonder to these seven stories about neurological disorders that he brought to his best-selling books Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one amazing kid emerge as remarkably adaptable individuals, whose circumstances have not so much disabled them as ushered them into a different reality.