Memory's last breath: field notes on my dementia
Biography, Science and medicine biography, Women biography
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Based on the "field notes" the author keeps in her journal, this is a window into a life distorted by dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional shoplifting, car journeys derailed when she loses her bearings, and… the embarrassment of forgetting what she has just said to a room of colleagues. Coping with the complications of losing short-term memory, Saunders nonetheless embarks on a personal investigation of the brain and its mysteries, examining science and literature, and immersing herself in vivid memories of her childhood in South Africa. 2017.