Stefan Merrill Block’s The Story of Forgetting is an amazing first novel that attempts to give a voice to Alzheimer’s. It uses early-onset Alzheimer’s or familial Alzheimer’s disease (EOA) as a starting point of examining the human condition. The two narrators of the novel have not only different voices but different perspectives as they’re 15 and 70. Go to amazon.com for some reviews and useful summaries of the book.
A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, Block spent a semester researching Alzheimer’s in an undergraduate memory lab and had first-hand experience with Alzheimer’s disease as his mother’s dise of the family had been suffering from it for generations.
Below is an excellent book trailer that will give you a good sense of the book:
The Story of Forgetting was published by Random House in 2008. Here’s a link to the author’s website.
