Author Meryl Comer
Slow Dancing with a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's
256 pages
Meryl Comer
August 2014
Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist Meryl Comer offers a candid reflection on her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s. The advocate tells of the 20 years she spent caring for Harvey Gralnick, who was 50 when he developed early-onset Alzheimer’s, which transformed him from a respected cancer researcher to a lost and confused man.
Second Forgetting: Remembering The Power Of The Gospel During Alzheimer's Disease
192 pages
Benjamin Mast, PhD
Sept. 2014
Charles is 78 years old and there is much he cannot remember: the names of his children, why he lives in a nursing home, or whether he ate breakfast today. In his fear and uncertainty he sometimes lashes out at those who try to care for him. But when someone reads a favorite Psalm he quickly joins in, reciting each cherished word. The author, a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor & Vice Chair in Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Louisville, provides a field guide for the journey of Alzheimer's disease.
FICTION:
Author Emma Healey
Elizabeth is Missing
Emma Healey
288 pages
June 2014
Maud’s been getting forgetful. She keeps buying peach slices when she has a cupboard full, forgets to drink the cups of tea she’s made and writes notes to remind herself of things. But Maud is determined to discover what has happened to her friend, Elizabeth, and what it has to do with the unsolved disappearance of her sister Sukey just after the Second World War. Wonderful mix of mystery and fictional look at life from inside the Alzheimer’s brain.
Stars Go Blue
194 pages
Laura Pritchett
June 2014
We first met hardscrabble ranchers Renny and Ben Cross in Laura's debut collection, and now in Stars Go Blue, they are estranged, elderly spouses living on opposite ends of their sprawling ranch, faced with the decline of a fading farm and Ben's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. He is able to recognize he is sick but unable to do anything about it -the notes he leaves in his pockets are no longer as helpful as they used to be.
Author Matthew Thomas
We Are Not Ourselves
641 pages
Matthew Thomas
August 2014
Cinematic and piercing, this book tells the story of Eileen Tumulty, a young woman born to an Irish family in Queens, NY, following the Second World War, and her haunting descent into dementia. New Yorker writer Stefan Merrill Block called it visionary and challenging and “The arrival of the greatest Alzheimer’s novel yet.”
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