9781370948338_

More than anything, this novel is a love story. It began about ten years ago as journal entries that I wrote when my mother was diagnosed with dementia and later, Alzheimers disease. She fought the symptoms with everything she had, but the most heart-crushing for me was my fathers desperate denial of what was happening to her. Even when she stopped remembering who he was, even when she stopped being able to feed herself, he insisted that she was getting better. The pain became so intense that my mind began to escape into fantasy.

Now I Remember I Love You is the story of Nick and Evie Landry:

Evie Landry is slipping, and she knows it. She has trouble remembering the names of her children, and even of her loving husband, Nick. Nothing in the house seems to be in the right place. Sometimes, at night, she wakes up terrified of Nick and runs away, but the neighbors always call him and he takes her back to the place she no longer believes is her home.

When their doctor tells Evie and Nick that she probably has Alzheimer's disease, Nick does everything he can to protect her, but one day she attacks him on the driveway and puts him in the hospital. The pressure to send her to long-term care becomes overwhelming. Early one morning, before the decision can be taken out of Nick's hands, he bundles Evie into their car and they begin a thousand-mile journey from Central California to Canada and their only hope of staying together.

Book club questions are included.

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Now I Remember I Love You is the story of Nick and Evie Landry:

When their doctor tells Evie and Nick that she probably has Alzheimers disease, Nick does everything he can to protect her, but one day she attacks him on the driveway and puts him in the hospital. The pressure to send her to long-term care becomes overwhelming. Early one morning, before the decision can be taken out of Nicks hands, he bundles Evie into their car and they begin a thousand-mile journey from Central California to Canada and their only hope of staying together.

Book club questions are included.

...(*_*)9781370948338_

Evie Landry is slipping, and she knows it. She has trouble remembering the names of her children, and even of her loving husband, Nick. Nothing in the house seems to be in the right place. Sometimes, at night, she wakes up terrified because she doesnt believe Nick is her husband and she runs away. The neighbors always call him and he takes her back to the place she no longer believes is her home.

When their doctor tells Evie and Nick that she probably has Alzheimers disease, Nick does everything he can to protect her, but one day she attacks him on the driveway and puts him in the hospital. The pressure to send her to a nursing home becomes overwhelming. Early one morning, before the decision can be taken out of Nicks hands, he bundles Evie into their car and they begin a thousand-mile journey from Central California to Canada and their only hope of staying together.

Book club questions are included.

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Janet Aird