Clare's review
My Lobotomy by Howard Dully
Howard Dully' memoir recounts in great detail and candor his struggle to discover why he was lobotomized at age 12. Although I certainly felt for him and appreciated the enormity of his struggle to find truth and closure, I do wish I had come away from the book with a deeper understanding of the effect the actual procedure had on him. I understood that much of the trouble he had in his later life had to do with the fact of the awful betrayal his parents committed in allowing this to be done to him, and alsoin large part to their subsequent abandonment of Howard to various institutions and ofster homes - but I didn't understand how the procedure itself made him feel, whether it dulled his emotions, made him forgetful, or anything else? I didn't understand what his level of functionality was after the lobotomy versus before. Still, a brave and fascinating account.
