Memory's Last Breath defy the stars Dear Uncle Herbert

Dear Uncle Herbert

With the same heart-pounding narrative drive that made The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter national bestsellers

and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos

To end the hostilities

Sonny Rollins is one of jazz's great innovators

Memory's Last Breath defy the stars Dear Uncle HerbertA "courageous and singular book" (Andrew Solomon), Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir "an intimate, revealing account of living with dementia" (Shelf Awareness). Based on the "field notes" she keeps in her journal, Memory's Last Breath is Gerda Saunders' astonishing window into a life distorted by dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional shoplifting, car journeys derailed when she loses her