Wonderful memoir of Miller’s dad and his descent into Alzheimer’s. It brought back the year I spend caring for a woman with that horrible disease when I worked as a home health aide. The strange forms the memory loss takes (it’s NOT just losing your keys–I wince whenever someone jokingly attributes normal memory problems to incipient Alzheimer’s), the ways that personality stays and shifts, the frustration and denial pattern of the family–it’s all heart-wrenchingly portrayed. There’s also the wild story of the “cat house” that they renovated together–a beautiful old house that had been trashed by a recluse and his countless cats.