Description

A stroke happens when a lack of oxygen causes damage to tissues in the brain. It is often an extremely confounding event that can shatter one’s personality as well as one’s relationship with other people and the world.

A stroke triggers complex questions about the role of the brain in human behaviour, but also challenges conventional ideas about reality. Based on first-hand experience, Right in the Head is a personal exploration of trauma and a critical investigation of art and science to understand the relationship between human beings and their brains. Encompassing psychogeography, the neuronovel, a confessional and a love story, Groes explores how stroke victims and their loved ones are confronted with the meaning of life.

Taking the shape of an existential journey, the book traces the transformation of the writer’s relationship not only to mental health, language and literature, but to life itself.