Thank you dear reader for this kind & generous review of Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, & the Brain, the #memoir I wrote with #UCSF #neurologist, Dr. Bruce Miller in honor of my father who died of #early-onset #Alzheimer's. For people interested in reading other books about #dementia, I would recommend #DashaKiper's Travelers to Unimaginable Lands, #SandeepJauhar's My Father's Brain, & #AmyBloom's In Love.
Today is the last day of #Alzheimer's & #Brain Awareness month. If you want to read about #dementia, consider #SandeepJauhar's My Father's Brain, #DashaKiper's Traveler's to Unimaginable Lands, #AmyBloom's In Love. Finding the Right Words, my #memoir, written w/#neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller, is about my father's #early-onset Alzheimers. We wrote it to share info. about #neurology, the challenges of #caregiving, & how brutal the #grief can be.
Remembering my dad today and everyday.
#EndAlz
It's #BrainAwarenessWeek & one of the activities that's good for your #brain is reading. Here are some book recommendations. What would you suggest?
#PattiSmith, Just Kids
#MatJohnson, Pym
#JoanDidion, The Year of Magical Thinking
#KaitlynGreenidge, Libertie
#JasonMott, Hell of a Book
#JuliaMayJonas, Vladimir
#DashaKiper, Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of #Dementia, The #Caregiver, and the Human Brain
#PercivalEverett, The Trees
#rachelyoder, Nightbitch
@lastrobot. Oh, that's a really great one! I was JUST thinking that #DashaKiper's #TravelersToUnimaginableLands would be a good non-fiction book to include. Thank you!
@andisheh. Love this question! I read the Everett and Oshetsky a while ago but they remain very much with me.
#PercivalEverett, #TheTrees
#DashaKiper, #TravelersToUnimaginableLands
#ClaireOshetsky, #Chouette
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/demi-moore-heartbroken-over-bruce-164955289.html
This is an extremely difficult moment. My father may not have known me as his early-onset #Alzheimers worsened but I always knew he loved me. That understanding sometimes held me together. If this moment speaks to you, here are two excellent books about #dementia: #DashaKiper's Travelers to Unimaginable Lands and #SandeepJauhar My Father's Brain. I also honored my father with a #memoir that I wrote with #neurologist, Dr. Bruce Miller.
November is #NationalCaregiver'sMonth. If you have time to read (or listen to) one #book that magnificently, painfully, and honestly shares the challenges of #caregiving, the complex workings of a #brain with #dementia, and the sheer power of #empathy, read #DashaKiper's #TravelersToUnimaginableLands. You will also learn how #Melville's #Bartleby, #Beckett's #Godot, #Kafka's #Metaphomorphosis, and other works of #literature help us understand #Alzheimer's.
A beautiful, powerful, and learned book about #dementia, #grief, the #brain. Thank you #DashaKiper for writing it.
#DashaKiper writes about #dementia and #caregiving and identifying with the narrator of #Melville's #Bartleby. In #FindingtheRightWords, I write about identifying with Bartleby in that for a very, very long time, I preferred not to look at my father's #Alzheimer's. My dear friend, co-author, #neurologist, and empath #Dr.BruceMiller helped me look. He looked with me. My father died many years ago, but it remains extraordinarily hard and painful to look. https://lithub.com/what-melvilles-bartleby-the-scrivener-tells-us-about-memory-loss/ #EndAlz
