There’s JJ, the upstanding fireman hoping to start his own family Patrick, the rowdy bartender Meghan, the accomplished but uptight ballet dancer and Katie, the restless yoga instructor just trying to get them all to take her seriously. And with four adult kids still living under his roof, he needs it.
We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book.Īs a police officer from an Irish Catholic neighborhood in Boston, Joe O’Brien has always prided himself on his self-control. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion.
This reading group guide for Inside the O’Briens includes an introduction, discussion questions, ideas for enhancing your book club, and a Q&A with author Lisa Genova. Praised for writing that “explores the resilience of the human spirit” ( The San Francisco Chronicle), Lisa Genova has once again delivered a novel as powerful and unforgettable as the human insights at its core. As Joe’s symptoms worsen and he’s eventually stripped of his badge and more, Joe struggles to maintain hope and a sense of purpose, while Katie and her siblings must find the courage to either live a life “at risk” or learn their fate. While watching her potential future in her father’s escalating symptoms, twenty-one-year-old daughter Katie struggles with the questions this test imposes on her young adult life. Huntington’s is a lethal neurodegenerative disease with no treatment and no cure, and each of Joe’s four children has a 50 percent chance of inheriting their father’s disease. He initially attributes these episodes to the stress of his job, but as these symptoms worsen, he agrees to see a neurologist and is handed a diagnosis that will change his and his family’s lives forever: Huntington’s disease. A devoted husband, proud father of four children in their twenties, and respected officer, Joe begins experiencing bouts of disorganized thinking, uncharacteristic temper outbursts, and strange, involuntary movements. Joe O’Brien is a forty-three-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Lisa Genova comes a “heartbreaking…very human novel” (Matthew Thomas, author of We Are Not Ourselves) that does for Huntington’s disease what her debut novel Still Alice did for Alzheimer’s.
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