If you enjoyed June's book discussion Still Alice by Lisa Genova you might like these titles:
Iris and Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire, by John Bayley (Non-fiction 921 Murdoch)
Murdoch and Bayley had a long and loving marriage which ended as Murdoch was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and eventually passed away. This is his endearing chronicle and tribute to their final years together.
Deaf Sentence, by David Lodge (Fiction LODGE)
A funny, moving account of one man's effort to come to terms with deafness and death, aging and mortality, the comedy and tragedy of human life.
The Story of Forgetting, by Stefan Merrill Block (Fiction BLOCK)
Seth Walker, a smart teenager who is trying to cope as his mother declines into a rare early-onset form of Alzheimer's. Another loner, an elderly hunchback named Abel Haggard, who can not forget his losses, lives on the shrinking remnants of his family farm. Though generations apart these two men have an unusual connection.
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