Emma Healey is the author of Elizabeth Is Missing and Whistle in the Dark.At the Guardian, she tagged five titles that explore the physical and emotional impact of dementia, including:
Looking at the condition from the outside can only get us so far, but the best fiction can almost put us inside the head of another person. The “For” section of Ali Smith’s brilliant novel There But For The recreates the internal workings of a mind with dementia. Written as a stream of consciousness, vivid moments from the past are presentedRead about another entry on the list.between parentheses and in the present tense, giving the sense that those memories are much more immediate than the past-tense contemporary account. Playful and quick witted, the sum total of a woman’s life – her tragedies, jokes and certainties – is jumbled together, yet Smith creates a vivid sense of a person rather than a sufferer.
--Marshal Zeringue
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