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My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's by Sandeep Jauhar
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My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s by Sandeep Jauhar

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In an intimate memoir rich with humour and heartbreak, Jauhar relates how his immigrant father and extended family felt, quarrelled, and found their way through the dissolution of a cherished life. Along the way, he lucidly exposes what happens in the brain as we age and our memory falters and explores everything from the history of ancient Greece to the most cutting-edge neurological-and bioethical-research. Throughout, My Father’s Brain confronts the moral and psychological concerns that arise when family members must become caregivers, when children’s and parents’ roles reverse, and when we must accept unforeseen turns in our closest relationships-and in our understanding of what it is to have a self. The result is a work of essential insight into dementia, and into how scientists, caregivers, and all of us in an aging society are reckoning with the fallout.

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There may be up to 10 million Indians living with Alzheimer’s disease or related dementias, and that number is expected to increase dramatically in the next few decades. What is it like to live with and amid this increasingly prevalent condition-an affliction that some fear more than death? In My Father’s Brain, the distinguished physician and author Sandeep Jauhar sets his father’s descent into Alzheimer’s alongside his own journey toward understanding this disease and how it might best be coped with, if not cured.

About the author

Sandeep Jauhar

Sandeep Jauhar

Sandeep Jauhar has written several bestselling books, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

MY FATHER’S BRAIN, his latest book, is a memoir of his relationship with his father as he succumbed to dementia. In the book, Jauhar sets his father’s descent into Alzheimer’s alongside his own journey toward understanding his father’s disease. It was named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, and was a Smithsonian top ten science book of 2023.

Jauhar’s first book, INTERN, was an international bestseller and was optioned by NBC for a dramatic TV series.

His second book, DOCTORED, was a NYT bestseller and was named a NY Post Best Book of 2014.

HEART: A HISTORY, his last book, was named a best book of 2018 by Science Friday, UK’s The Mail on Sunday, and the Los Angeles Public Library, and was the PBS NewsHour/NYT book club pick for January 2019; it was also a finalist for the Wellcome Book Prize.

 

Additional information

Dimensions 19 × 12 × 1 cm
Binding

Paperback
ISBN

978-0143472469
Language

English
Pages

256
Publication date

23 June 2025
Publisher

India Penguin
Writer

Sandeep Jauhar

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