The Vanishing Family
A Story of Fate, Love, and the Disappearing Mind
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The Vanishing Family
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Robert Kolker
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In the idyllic American town of Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania, lived a family with nine siblings, the youngest a girl named Barb. As the older children headed off to college and started their lives, only Barb was home to see their beautiful, still-young mother fall under a gothic spell, changed into someone she didn’t recognize: withdrawn, neglectful, uncaring. Thus begins The Vanishing Family, journalist Robert Kolker’s stunning, superb follow-up to his breakout hit, Hidden Valley Road.
The family, we learn, has a genetic mutation for dementia, but with an especially cruel twist. As early as their forties, formerly loving parents and hard driving executives will lose their jobs, have affairs, take up drinking—shed all inhibitions and sense of responsibility, and become people their families hardly know. Their personalities seem to vanish--and there is a 50/50 chance that it will happen to their children, too.
The Vanishing Family unfolds like a heartbreaking thriller, as the siblings realize that what happened to their mother is happening to them: first one, then two, three, four, and more begin to change. Sue, in search of a calling, finds her place in caring for the others. Barb sets out to find a cure. Weaving into their story, Kolker reveals that the scientific fight against dementia has been stalled for decades and this family’s rare form of FTD (frontotemporal dementia) might lead to a breakthrough in the prevention and treatment of all dementia--including the scourge of Alzheimer’s disease. Moving, intimate, unexpectedly hopeful and redemptive, The Vanishing Family is an enthralling narrative about one family’s fate and a medical detective story that speaks to all of us who fear losing ourselves at the end.
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