Book of the Week

One of the most intriguing books to hit our library shelves recently is titled “My Lobotomy - A Memoir”.

At twelve, Howard Dully was guilty of the same crimes as other boys his age: he was moody and messy, rambunctious with his brothers, contrary just to prove a point, and perpetually at odds with his parents. Yet somehow, this normal boy became one of the youngest people on whom Dr. Walter Freeman performed his barbaric transorbitalor ice pick lobotomy. Abandoned by his family within a year of the surgery, Howard spent his teen years in mental institutions, his twenties in jail, and his thirties in a bottle. It wasn’t until he was in his forties that Howard began to pull his life together. But even as he began to live the normal life he had been denied, Howard struggled with one question: Why?

Readers so far have commented that it was interesting and well written. Certainly one of the stranger books to come in. If you don’t see it on the new books displays in your local library, you can find it in the biographies section of the non-fiction collection under number 920 DUL.