This is a sensitive and lovely portrait of a family afflicted with Alzheimer's. Yes, family, because when one member suffers from this disease, every member of the family is affected. Sadly, our family dealt with its' horrors when my husband was an Alzheimer's victim.

I truly loved the way Rachel Khong described, with great sensitivity, not only the decline of Ruth's father, but the way all those around him react to him and the disease. We see how all their lives change. The reader learns about the disease, the anger, the frustration, not only felt by the patient, but by all the caregivers.

It is disheartening to watch this former professor deal with the loss of his brain, his dignity and his memory. So many of the symptoms are captured as Ruth, his daughter pitches in as a a caregiver.

This book does a wonderful job of sharing the early months of the disease (sadly, it gets much worse). We are rooting for you and your family, Ruth. Since this is so incredibly topical, I would urge anyone who is dealing with an older loved one to read this. It is sad but realistic....there are no happy endings.

I loved the humor and unexpectedness of this book, The narrator is doing her best to be a good daughter to her overburdened mother and a father in the early stages of dementia. Her relationships are complicated and the plot retains just enough of the absurd.

Khong tackles Alzheimer's in the sweetest, lightest way here. That's not to say there's not depth; there is, and I really appreciated her subtle integration of the love story into the Alzheimer's story. But this book really is sweet and funny, if you can believe it.

And I just have to say a word about the structure, which was, I thought, masterful. The way the book speeds up at the end...it mirrors the real-life experience of life, I think. I wasn't sold on the journal aspect of the structure at first, but it really paid off at the end, so kudos to Rachel Khong, man.

Can't wait to put this one in people's hands in July.

Thanks to the publisher and to NetGalley for the digital ARC.