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Author Saunders, Gerda, author, narrator.

Title Memory's last breath [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] field notes on my dementia / Gerda Saunders.

Edition Unabridged.
Imprint Ashland : Hachette Books, 2017.
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Description 1 online resource (11 audio files) : digital
Playing Time 09:45:12
Description audio file rda
Note Unabridged.
Performer Narrator: Gerda Saunders.
Summary In the tradition of Brain on Fire and When Breath Becomes Air, Gerda Saunders' Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir--a true-life Still Alice that captures Saunders' experience as a fiercely intellectual person living with the knowledge that her brain is betraying her. Saunders' book is uncharted territory in the writing on dementia, a diagnosis one in nine Americans will receive. Based on the "field notes" she keeps in her journal, Memory's Last Breath is 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 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.
System Details Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 272006 KB).
Subject Saunders, Gerda -- Mental health.
Dementia -- Patients -- Biography. -- Sound recordings.
Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Biography. -- Sound recordings.
Genre Electronic audiobooks.
ISBN 9781478949909 (sound recording)
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