When Sue Miller's father fell victim to Alzheimer's disease, her world plunged into crisis. Both as a daughter and as a writer, she was forced to bend to the disease's unrelenting course, and watch her father's memory slip away. As a daughter, she was tormented by the slow loss of her father's faculties, and frustrated by her attempts to care for him. As a writer, she was inspired by the problem of how to make a true account of someone's life coalesce out of the dying and tangled threads of memory. The result is a clear, compassionate portrait of two lives, a powerful and insightful journal of grieving, love, and transcendence.
"Deft, sincere and eloquent. . . With the care, restraint, and consummate skill that define her well-crafted and bestselling fiction, Sue Miller has now written a beautiful, compelling memoir about her father and his downward spiral into the demonic grasp of Alzheimer's disease."
Atlanta Journal-Constitution...
"Stunning. . . A remarkable yet self-effacing testament to the vagaries of memory . . . [Miller] turns a man's simple life and tragic death into a lively and unforgettable narrative."
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel...
"Deeply affecting . . . Like any memoir, this one is a way of bringing its subject back to life. . . . [This] beautifully written little book takes on the narrative power of first-rate fiction."
The Boston Globe...
"Beautifully written . . . Style and story are so seamlessly fused, and so perfectly balanced, that true clarity emerges."
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