Fic­tion

An Absent Mind

  • From the Publisher
May 22, 2014

A Jew­ish hus­band, a Catholic wife, and Alzheimers: An Absent Mind is about a race against time. The tick­ing time bomb is Saul Reimer€s san­i­ty. His Alzheimer’s is the cat­a­lyst that will either bring his fam­i­ly togeth­er or tear it apart. Sev­en­ty-one and a man used to being in con­trol, Saul finds him­self help­less­ly slip­ping into the abyss in what he describes as his slow dance with death. 

Although the nov­el depicts Saul’s ardu­ous strug­gle, it is equal­ly a sto­ry about his rela­tion­ship with his loved ones and their shared jour­ney. As we lis­ten in on his ram­blings, humor, emo­tions, lucid moments, and con­fu­sion, we are also privy to the thoughts and feel­ings of his family€his wife, Monique, con­flict­ed, car­ing, yet angry; his daugh­ter, Flo­rence, com­pas­sion­ate, prop­er and reserved; his son, Joey, self-cen­tered and nar­cis­sis­tic; and Dr. Trem­blay, Saul’s Alzheimer’s spe­cial­ist, who pro­vides the read­er with facts and obser­va­tions about this dread­ed dis­ease that impris­ons mil­lions of peo­ple worldwide.

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