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A Foreword Book of the Year in Autobiography/MemoirA Publishers Weekly Indie Top 20 selectionA Washington Post Best Book of 2009As Joe Thorndike loses both both memory and language, his son John moves in to look after him. Joe can no longer tell time or make a phone call, and forgets the names of people he has known for sixty years. He’s convinced that the governor of Massachusetts has come to visit and is in the refrigerator. He forgets that his bathroom has a toilet and uses the floor instead. As father and son are thrown together, their troubles draw them close.

In the face of a mysterious and terrifying illness, this is the story of a family trying to maintain some kind of togetherness. Torn between his commitment to keep Clarisa a part of Janir’s life and the threat she poses to that life, John acknowledges that he can care for his son in ways he never could for Clarisa. All who have experienced the wrench of mental illness in the family will recognize their own journey in this heartfelt story of fatherhood.

Virginia and Joe Thorndike have been married for 22 years, and now she's in love with a surgeon 13 years her junior. She leaves her husband and flies to Miami to start living with Rich Villamano, but there he tells her he has changed his mind and they must go their own ways. She takes off in his car, heading north with no luggage, no hope, no destination. She buys a bottle of gin and drinks it straight. Afraid that she’ll kill herself or someone else on the road, she abandons the car, flies to New York and takes an airport hotel room. She has no home and nowhere to go.