A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from—memory.At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future dogged by self-doubt and financial worry. June is forty-eight years old then, a writer and a teacher, and over the following nine years she watches as her husband gradually changes—in interests, goals, and behavior—until Tony has a sudden fall, endin...

A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from — memory.At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future. June is forty-eight, a writer and teacher, and over the following decade watches as her husband changes — in interests, goals, and behaviour — until Tony has a fall, ending the life they had known.A diagnosis is seven years away, yet the s...