Strokeland | A Memoir by Lynette Lamb – Lynette Lamb has been a magazine writer and editor for more than 30 years, including at Utne Reader and Minnesota Monthly magazines, and the spouse of a stroke survivor for 15 years.

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A new memoir by LYNETTE LAMB

“I was carried along and couldn’t put it down…beautifully written, spare and lush…honest and caring and truthful.”

—Marge Ostroushko, public radio producer and co-creator of Giving Voice Chorus

When Lynette Lamb’s 45-year-old husband suffered a severe stroke, the future looked bleak for both of them, and for their grade school-age daughters.

In Strokeland, Lamb shares the unvarnished truth about how they lived through a devastating medical event and learned to live with a life-changing disability.

$20 per book (includes shipping and handling).

Ten percent of the cover price of each copy of Strokeland will be donated to MnCAN (Minnesota Connect Aphasia Now).

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“What a heart-wrenching, honest, and important memoir.”

—Bonnie Carlson-Green, pediatric neuropsychologist, Children's Hospital Minneapolis

"Strokeland is an unflinching, moving, tender, devoted portrait of ambiguous loss that gives voice to both grief and the hope of subtle triumphs."

—Elizabeth Foy Larsen, Twin Cities author and editor

"As someone whose husband had a massive left-brain stroke at 56, this book rang so true for me. Now I want my friends to read it because of its insight into what I’ve experienced."

—Cindy Eidnes Hill, attorney and stroke care partner

"I devoured your book. It was beautifully written, honest, funny, and brave. And as someone whose father had a stroke at 65, it spoke to me."

—Ann Aronson, marketing executive, stroke caregiver

"I will be a better speech therapist because of this memoir. A must-read for families and clinical professionals supporting stroke survivors."

—Carly J. Cauley, speech-language pathologist

"No one can know the reality of what it's like to struggle with a loved one's stroke...[but] with this book, I am better able to understand and empathize."

—Becky Halvorson, retired school social worker

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Lynette Lamb has been a magazine writer and editor for more than 30 years, including at Utne Reader and Minnesota Monthly magazines, and the spouse of a stroke survivor for 15 years.

Lamb and her husband, Robert Gerloff, are the parents of two adult daughters and live in Minneapolis. Strokeland is her first book.

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