The bittersweet account of a son’s final year with his father, former Life magazine managing editor Joe Thorndike, stricken with Alzheimer’s, and a candid portrait of an implacable disease.
John Thorndike is the author of three novels: Anna Delaney’s Child, The Potato Baron, and A Hundred Fires in Cuba, as well as a previous memoir, Another Way Home. He lives in Athens, Ohio.
"This book tells a hard story, the relentless decline of a father's memory and self-awareness. John Thorndike writes a beautiful sentence, a beautiful page, and describes his father's last year with piercing clarity, but also great warmth. He opens a world we will all have to face." - Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones In The Last of his Mind, John Thorndike has given us far more than a book on dealing with Alzheimer's. This taut, clear-eyed memoir of a son caring for his father in his final days is an act of consummate literary bravery, allowing us to witness the final dance between two flawed and admirable men. - Rob Wilder - author of Daddy Needs a Drink and Tales from the Teachers' Lounge Here in detail is a story we fear for our loved ones, a story we fear for ourselves. Yet Thorndike also conveys the humor and joy, the contemplation and compassion, and the reconciliation and healing that were part of this journey. The result: The Last of His Mind is both heart-wrenching and heart-warming. - Lady Borton - author of After Sorrow: An American Among the Vietnamese
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