Author’s Experience with Brain Injured Sets Stage for Novel
Author Joy Lee Rutter just completed her novel, “A Flamboyant Disarray of Dreams” and is looking for a publisher. Her book is set in a neurological rehabilitation facility; it is general fiction, with suspense, romance and a surprising twist.
(PRWEB) March 10, 2004 -- How long does it take to blink? That is the time
required for a permanent brain injury to occur. In literally the blink of an
eye, a person can lose cognitive skills such as memory and language. The brain
is damaged during impact because it ricochets inside the skull.
Brain
injury gets in the way of the ability to store, process, accumulate, and
retrieve information. It also interferes with the ability to control emotions,
to benefit from experience, to learn new information, and to be sensitive to the
emotional needs of others.
Ms. Rutter works at a neuro-rehab in New
Hampshire. The job is frustrating. At times, it is also dangerous; turnover is
high and burnout is a major occupational hazard. Shortly after she reached her
seven-year anniversary there, one of her peers said, “People on the outside
would never believe what we experience working in this environment. Someone
needs to write a book.” She took on the challenge. After all, she was not new to
writing. Her first published book, “A Disturbing Presence” was released
September 2003.
Synopsis:
A Flamboyant Disarray of Dreams
Genre:
Mystery/General Fiction
89,068 words
Joleen Cumberland questions her
motives for staying with her job at a neuro-rehabilitation facility. The
mysterious and sometimes volatile behavior of brain-injured client Alex Williams
causes her considerable apprehension. She loses her focus, which often endangers
her and her peers.
She knows she has reached the limits of her endurance,
but her unhappiness leaves her unable to move on. Her friend’s comment, “There’s
more going on with you than burnout, Joleen. You’re downright hostile!” forces
Joleen to take a closer look at her life and its direction.
When Alex
Williams moves into room five with a new client named Mitch Stevens, the pair
inadvertently begins to help each other. Mitch’s inability to speak, a direct
result of his fall from a second story building, intrigues Alex. Is Mitch truly
unable to communicate, or merely unwilling to do so? If so, why? Alex’s
determined and childlike personality begins to wear Mitch
down.
Eventually, Joleen discovers that they are both starting to express
themselves. Alex exposes his deep anger at a troubled past, but only to Mitch,
and Mitch begins to display an awareness nobody thought he possessed. Joleen
takes the time to listen, and becomes entangled in a strange situation she
cannot ignore.
Her supervisor warns her against stepping out of her
“professional boundaries” while Mitch’s arrogant brother Geoff nearly causes
Joleen to lose her job. Her coworker, Brad, whose behavior is more bizarre and
obnoxious than that of the brain-injured clients, gives Joleen real cause for
animosity.
...Why, again, did she choose this profession?
Only A
Flamboyant Disarray of Dreams holds the answer.
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