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What does a family hold on to when illness changes its future? The Vanishing Family: Love, Fate, and the Quest to End Dementia by Robert Kolker explores that question through narrative nonfiction about family, caregiving and scientific research.
A family story with a scientific thread
The publisher describes a Pennsylvania family of nine siblings facing inherited frontotemporal dementia. Kolker follows the people living with that uncertainty, the relatives caring for them and the researchers working to understand the disease. The subject brings together intimate family experiences and the broader search for answers.
Who might want to explore it?
Consider this book if you enjoy reported nonfiction that connects human stories with medicine and science. Its themes include family relationships, illness and caregiving. This is a book discovery feature based on published information; we have not personally read or rated the book.
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Author: Robert Kolker
Publisher of the linked edition: Random House Large Print
Format: Large-print paperback
ISBN: 9798217413270
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