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Jun 12, 2017tjdickey rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
A purposefully maddening narrative, with the story told from the perspective of an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. The protagonist often struggles to locate his words even early on; the sentence, "Entropy - this is the word his brain has been trying to hunt down for days" is alone worth the price of reading. The connections to reality are thus never quite certain for us, and less so as the decline continues. Nevertheless, the architect narrator's life gradually unfolds for us through flashbacks, stories, and memories divorced from linear time, untrustworthy in themselves, but rendered in touching and often shattering prose.