This is my new read. I came home yesterday afternoon after Tanner's depressing loss (football) and elimination from the playoffs and started reading this. I didn't know what it was about, but I thought I would lose myself in a new book. And boy did I. I am already 1/2 way through it and I only read for a couple of hours. It is a really good book. Too bad it isn't one of those funny, uplifting books (really what I was wanting to read). This book is really hitting home with me as what the character has, it what my grandmother had- scary.
Here is what one person said about the book (on Barnes & Noble)

For anyone whose life has been touched by Alzheimer's disease (as so many have been, and many more will be), or for anyone who is approaching the far side of middle age, this book is at the same time clarifying and terrifying. The author takes the perspective of the Alzheimer's patient herself, one which is frequently overlooked by more "scholarly" works on the topic, and changes the whole tone of her writing as well as the subjects portrayed, as the narrator progresses further into the grip of the disease. She brings out many seldom-contemplated factors such as quality of life, support groups and counseling for the patient as well as the caregivers, and provides a gripping, touching, and horrifying sense of how it must be to feel yourself slipping away. I highly recommend this book to anyone. I have already passed around my advance copy and plan to buy several copies for family members and friends when it is released. A must-read for caregivers, relatives, and persons in the early stages of Alzheimers, and a goldmine for book groups