My Father's Brain

Named a best book of the year by The New Yorker A Smithsonian top ten science book of 2023 One of AARP magazine''s favorite books of 2023

¿Blending the humor, compassion, and absorbing family drama of first-rate memoir with expert science writing, [Sandeep Jauhar] has composed a can¿t-miss introduction to what has been called the Age of Alzheimer¿s.¿ ¿Sanjay Gupta, author of Keep Sharp and World War C

A deeply affecting memoir of a father¿s descent into dementia, and a revelatory inquiry into why the human brain degenerates with age and what we can do about it.

Almost six million Americans¿about one in every ten people over the age of sixty-five¿have Alzheimer¿s disease or a related dementia, and this number is projected to more than double by 2050. What is it like to live with and amid this increasingly prevalent condition, an affliction that some fear more than death? In My Father¿s Brain, the