You Lost Me There

Author	Baldwin, Rosecrans
Year	2010
First published	2010
Publisher	New York: Riverhead Books
Number of pages	304
Edition	First US hardback
ISBN	9781594487637
Keywords	medicine (biomedical research), cognitive science, literary or mainstream, scientist main character

Abstract

By turns funny, charming, and tragic, Rosecrans Baldwin’s debut novel introduces leading Alzheimer’s researcher Dr. Victor Aaron, who spends his days alternating between long hours in the lab and running through memories of his late wife, Sara. He’s preserved their marriage as a perfect, if tumultuous, duet between two opposite but compatible souls. Until the day he discovers a series of index cards in Sara’s handwriting that chronicle the major “changes in direction of their marriage.” Suddenly this eminent memory expert finds his faith in memory itself unraveling, and he must, along with his support network of strong women-from his lab assistant to Aunt Betsy, the doddering doyenne of the island where they all live-determine a way to move on. (Publisher)