Read by Sarah Paulson. Sarah Nickerson is like any other career-driven supermom in Welmont, the affluent Boston suburb where she leads a hectic but charmed life with her husband Bob, faithful nanny, & three children. Between recruiting the best & brightest minds as the Vice President of Human Resources at Berkley Consulting; shuttling the kids to soccer, day care, & piano lessons; & making it home in time for dinner, it's a wonder this over-achieving Harvard graduate has time to breathe. A self-confessed balloon about to burst, Sarah miraculously manages every minute of her life like an air traffic controller. Until one fateful day, while driving to work & trying to make a phone call, she looks away from the road for one second too long. In the blink of an eye, all the rapidly moving parts of her jam-packed life come to a screeching halt. A traumatic brain injury completely erases the left side of her world, & for once, Sarah must pay close attention to the details surrounding her, including her formerly absent mother. Without an awareness of the food on the left side of her plate or her own left h&, she is forced to search for answers in the void of this strange hemi-world
- both about the past & her uncertain future. Now, as she wills herself to regain her independence & heal, Sarah must learn that her real destiny
- her new, true life
- may in fact lie far from the world of conference calls & spreadsheets. & that a happiness & peace greater than all the success in the world is close within reach, if only she slows down long enough to notice.