The Language Instinct, by Stephen Pinker

The summer before, doctors beasly told me to stop playing completely. And just by luck, i was helping my parents clean their basement in cheshire, connecticut and i stumbled upon an old corse book of my sister's. It was called the language instinct, by stephen pinker. Maya started reading, and the more she read, the more excited she became. She went on to get her p h d at oxford on her old scholarship. She got a post doctoral fellowship. A promising career in academia lay ahead of her. But here, again, came another unexpected turn....