The Memory Eaters, Paperback/Elizabeth Kadetsky - University of Massachusetts Press

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On autopsy, the brain of an Alzheimer\'s patient can weigh as little as 30 percent of a healthy brain.
A professor of creative writing at Penn State and nonfiction editor at the New England Review, she is the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Program, Mac Dowell Colony, and Vermont Studio Center..
About the Author ELIZABETH Kadetsky is author of the memoir First There Is a Mountain, the short story collection The Poison that Purifies You, and the novella On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World.
Moving from her parents\' divorce to her mother\'s career as a Seventh Avenue fashion model and from her sister\'s addiction and homelessness to her own experiences with therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder, Kadetsky takes readers on a spiraling trip through memory, consciousness fractured by addiction and dementia, and a compulsion for the past salved by nostalgia.
At turns lyrical, poignant, and alluring, The Memory Eaters tells the story of a family\'s cyclical and intergenerational incidents of trauma, secret-keeping, and forgetting in the context of 1970s and 1980s New York City.
These remnants offer the false yet beguiling suggestion that the past is easy to reconstruct -- easy to hold.
As her mother loses her grasp on their shared history, Elizabeth Kadetsky sifts through boxes of the snapshots, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and notebooks that remain, hoping to uncover the memories that her mother is actively losing as her dementia progresses.
It is a sieve through which the past slips.
The tissue grows porous.
On autopsy, the brain of an Alzheimer\'s patient can weigh as little as 30 percent of a healthy brain