Wonder Girl: A Memoir of Motherhood, Mayhem, and Medical Mystery

A spellbinding memoir of a mother’s fight to save her daughter from a mysterious brain illness.

It began with a seizure on a Brooklyn sidewalk just as fourteen-year-old Niko was preparing to enter one of the country’s most competitive high schools. Her immune system had gone haywire and was attacking her brain. Eventually, the once happy, high-achieving teen could no longer read, write, or speak, and her behavior grew increasingly dangerous and erratic.

Niko was diagnosed with a catastrophic ...