This book was the second choice, the runner-up in this year's One Read program in my community. As often happens, the one they should have chosen, in my opinion.

Maybe because I'm drawn to Alzheimer's stories - they reach a place deep inside my psyche no other subject can. Not because I've seen the progression, the loss of self, in someone close to me. That has not happened. Not yet.

Turn of Mind is a story, not told, but brokenly glimpsed from within the mind of a woman already far gone into the disease: an unreliable narrator taken to the extreme. The reader doesn't always know what is real, happening in the present and not a memory or a dream. The reader doesn't know because Dr. Jennifer White doesn't know, can't hold on to the scattered pieces of her mind and her life. Despite this, the story pulls us forward, drags us toward a conclusion we resist. We don't want to think Jennifer murdered her best friend, but the evidence keeps mounting, even as the real world around her gets further away, harder to reach, and in her rare clear moments, too degrading to face.