![]() And when the university finally lets Howard go, Ruth and one of her father's handsome former students take their efforts to help Howard one step too far. She throws herself into caretaking: cooking dementia-fighting meals (a feast of jellyfish!), researching supplements, anything to reignite her father's once-notable memory. But as Howard's condition intensifies, the comedy in Ruth's situation takes hold, gently transforming her grief. Her father is erratically lucid and her mother, a devoted and creative cook, sees the sources of memory loss in every pot and pan. Freshly disengaged from her fiance and still broken up about it, feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year- old Ruth quits her job, and arrives home to find her parents' situation worse than she'd realized. ![]() Howard's wife, Annie, summons their daughter, Ruth. The pants belong to Howard Young, a prominent history professor, recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. ![]() ![]() And love."-Miranda July A few days after Christmas in a small suburb outside of L.A., pairs of a man's pants hang from the trees. Rachel Khong's first novel sneaks up on you - just like life. ![]()
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