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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: You don't look like anyone I know
    sub title: a true story of family, face blindness, and forgiveness
  name:
    name part: Sellers, Heather
    name part: 1964-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 356 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: An unusual and uncommonly moving family memoir, with a twist that give new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgiveness. The author is face blind--that is, she has prosopagnosia, a rare neurological condition that prevents her from reliably recognizing people's faces. Growing up, unaware of the reason for her perpetual confusion and anxiety, she took what cues she could from speech, hairstyle, and gait. But she sometimes kissed a stranger, thinking he was her boyfriend, or failed to recognize even her own father and mother. She feared she must be crazy. Yet it was her mother who nailed windows shut and covered them with blankets, made her daughter walk on her knees to spare the carpeting, had her practice secret words to use in the likely event of abduction. Her father went on weeklong "fishing trips" (aka benders), took in drifters, wore panty hose and bras under his regular clothes. She clung to a barely coherent story of a "normal" childhood in order to survive the one she had. That fairy tale unraveled two decades later when she took the man she would marry home to meet her parents and began to discover the truth about her family and about herself. As she came at last to trust her own perceptions, she learned the gift of perspective: that embracing the past as it is allows us to let it go. And she illuminated a deeper truth that even in the most flawed circumstances, love may be seen and felt.
  note: Heather Sellers.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sellers, Heather
      name part: 1964-
  subject:
    topic: Women authors, American
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Face perception
  subject:
    topic: Prosopagnosia
  classification: PS3569.E5749 Z46 2010
  classification: 818/.609 B
  identifier: 9781594487736
  identifier: 1594487731
  identifier: 2010010228
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 100316
    record change date: 20151202112156.0
    record identifier: in00002687042