Called "a poignantly searing fusion of heartbreak and hope" by Kirkus Reviews, this is the story of a woman--and a neurobiologist--forced to come to terms with her mother's mental deterioration, while bringing a new life into the world.

Sybil Lockhart, a Berkeley neurobiologist, became a "mother in the middle" when she was pregnant with her second daughter and her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

When her mother begins to show the first subtle signs of the disease that is slowly ravaging her brain, Sybil refuses to consider the possibility of dementia,...