Synopses & Reviews
In Remind Me Who I Am, Again, Linda Grant tells the story of her mother's gradual but devastating mental deterioration, her diagnosis as a victim of Alzheimer's disease, and her family's struggle to come to terms with the catastrophic impact of the disease. Iimmensely moving, at times darkly comic, and searingly honest, it combines biography and memoir in a unique examination of the profound questions of identity, memory, and autonomy that dementia raises.
Synopsis
At the beginning of the nineties, Linda Grant's mother began to repeat her questions -- not because she couldn't remember the answers but because she didn't remember having asked. As her mother's onset of Alzheimer's disease worsened, Grant realized that her family history was vanishing along with her mother's memory. Remind Me Who I Am, Again is the powerful story of a disease, of the workings of the mind, and of a daughter's quest to reconstruct the past.
About the Author
Linda Grant is the author of The Clothes On Their Backs, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Still Here, which was longlisted for the Booker; The Thoughful Dresser; and When I Lived in Modern Times, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly Prize.
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