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• Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

  Chast, Roz,

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  In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

  a Novel

  Joyce, Rachel

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  Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shadow Life

  Goto, Hiromi, 1966-

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  When Kumiko’s well-meaning adult daughters place her in an assisted living home, the 76-year-old widow gives it a try, but it’s not where she wants to be. She goes on the lam and finds a cozy bachelor apartment, keeping the location secret even…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed

  Tursten, Helene, 1954-

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  Eighty-eight-year-old Maud is never looking for trouble, but it always seems to find her. First, a woman in her building met an untimely end: tragic. Then, just recently, a dead body mysteriously appeared in her very own apartment, prompting an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Still Alice

  a Novel

  Genova, Lisa

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  "Still Alice" is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph.D in neuroscience from Harvard University.

• Goodbye, Vitamin

  a Novel

  Khong, Rachel, 1985-

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  "Goodbye, Vitamin" is the wry, beautifully observed story of a woman at a crossroads. As Ruth and her friends attempt to shore up her father's career; she and her mother obsess over the ambiguous health benefits—in the absence of a cure—of dried…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

  Jonasson, Jonas, 1961-

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  A reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert with a fondness for vodka) decides it’s not too late to start over.

• Wrinkles

  Roca, Paco

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  Admitted to a home for the elderly because he suffers from Alzheimer's disease, community life feels like an ordeal for Ernest. But he soon accepts his new environment and decides to fight to escape from giving in to his awful destiny. For the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Made for Love

  a Novel

  Nutting, Alissa,

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  When Hazel moves into a trailer park of senior citizens with her father and his lifelike sex doll, she feels that her life has hit an all-time low. As she tries to carve out a new life for herself, the overbearing husband she ran out on tries…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

  Patrick, Phaedra

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  Arthur Pepper is a 69-year-old man whose simple, routine lifestyle is disrupted when he finds an unfamiliar gold charm bracelet among his late wife's possessions. Arthur sets out on an epic quest to find out the truth about his wife's secret life…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Three Things About Elsie

  a Novel

  Cannon, Joanna (Psychiatrist),

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  This is the best nursing home mystery you’ll ever read. Eighty-four-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, she thinks about her lifelong friend Elsie and wonders if a terrible secret…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

  A Novel

  Moggach, Deborah

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  When Ravi Kapoor, an overworked London doctor, reaches the breaking point with his difficult father-in-law, he asks his wife: “Can’t we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away.” His prayer is seemingly answered when Ravi’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Housekeeper and the Professor

  Ogawa, Yōko, 1962-

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  He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem—ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper, with a 10-year-old son, who is hired to care for him. And…Read moreRead more of this annotation