A.J. Jacobs is the author ofThanks a Thousand, Its All Relative, Drop Dead Healthy, and theNew York Times bestsellersThe Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, andMy Life as an Experiment. He is a contributor to NPR, and has written forThe New York Times, The Washington Post, andEntertainment Weekly. He lives in New York City with his wife and kids. Visit him at AJJacobs.com and follow him on Twitter @ajjacobs.
"Jacobs' experiments are about understanding oneself, making life more interesting and showing the reader a good time. And I love them for it."-San Francisco Chronicle
While this short memoir deals with the significant and timely subject of dementia, it reads like a vanity publication. In alternating chapters, the Parker sisters provide their respective views on their mother's precipitous decline into dementia. With loving detail, they relate the particulars of caring for their dependent mother. The book takes on a schizoid quality when it moves from memoir to manual on the phases of dementia. Return to Joy doesn't know what it wants to be, and the authors' amateur speculation into the causes of dementia lacks credibility. Not recommended.-Lynne Maxwell, Villanova Univ. Sch. of Law Lib., PA Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.
"Jacobs' experiments are about understanding oneself, making life more interesting and showing the reader a good time. And I love them for it."-San Francisco Chronicle
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