Where Memories Meet: Reclaiming my father after Alzheimer's

"Where Memories Meet is a poignant and personal story that is an informative and absorbing read from beginning to end." Midwest Book Review

Author Christine Grote's memoir of losing her father to Alzheimer's, interwoven with her father Jerry's narration of his life, is two stories in one book. Grote invites us into her parents' home where accommodations are continually made for her father as he loses his memory, judgment, and mobility to Alzheimer's. She allows us into her heart as she struggles to accept and live with the loss of her father,often repressing her own memories of the man she once relied on to cope with the challenges posed by the man he was becoming.

This is one daughter's story of re-finding or reclaiming, through not only her own but also her  father's memories, the loved one she lost along their Alzheimer's journey.