{"product_id":"9781947534278","title":"The Museum of Words: A Memoir of Language, Writing, and Mortality","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn late 2015, Georgia Blain was diagnosed with a tumour sitting right in the language centre of her brain. Prior to this, Georgia’s only warning had been a niggling sense that her speech was slightly awry. She ignored it, and on a bright spring day, as she was mowing the lawn, she collapsed on a bed of blossoms, blood frothing at her mouth.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWaking up to find herself in the back of an ambulance being rushed to hospital, she tries to answer questions, but is unable to speak. After the shock of a bleak prognosis and a long, gruelling treatment schedule, she immediately turns to writing to rebuild her language and herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, her mother, Anne Deveson, moves into a nursing home with Alzheimer’s; weeks earlier, her best friend and mentor had been diagnosed with the same brain tumour. All three of them are writers, with language at the core of their being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Museum of Words\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on writing, reading, first words and last words, picking up thread after thread as it builds on each story to become a much larger narrative. This idiosyncratic and deeply personal memoir is a writer’s take on how language shapes us, and how often we take it for granted — until we are in danger of losing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scribe Publications Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040763592944,"sku":"9781947534278","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781947534278_p0.jpg?v=1763798304","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781947534278","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}