Lisa Genova is the author of Remember: The Science of Memory and Forgetting. I have loved other books by this author including Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, Inside the O'Brians, and Every Note Played. This book is different from those. In those other books the story revolved around a patient with a brain disease. This book has no patient. The author talks about how memories are formed. Everyone has memory failures and that is no indication of dementia. She gives ideas on how to get a memory to stick such as keep repeating it or attach it to an emotion. Forgetting is just as important as remembering.
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