One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing by Diane Ackerman
“Ackerman is one of my favorite authors because she has such a great gift for beautifully written nonfiction. In this memoir she chronicles the tragic but triumphant story of her husband, also a famous and well-published writer, who had a brain-wasting stroke that resulted in his loss of language. This is an incredibly inspiring story …