Donohue, Keith. The Motion of Puppets.New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2016.
In the Old City of Québec, Kay Harper works as an acrobat while her husband, Theo, is translating a biography of an influential photographer. Kay is walking home from dinner when she fears she is being pursued. She takes shelter in an open toy shop named the Quatre Mains. The next morning Kay is missing. Her husband, Theo, is desperately looking for her while also under police suspicion. Kay has been magically transformed into a puppet who only comes to life between the evening hours of midnight and dawn. Theo must find and recognize Kay in her puppet form to order bring her back to the human world.

Genova, Lisa. Still Alice. New York, NY: Gallery Books, 2009.
Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty years old, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis changes her life and her relationship with her family and the world forever. As she struggles to cope with Alzheimer's, she learns that her worth is comprised of far more than her ability to remember.

Harding, Paul. Tinkers: 10th Anniversary Edition. New York, NY: Bellevue Literary Press, 2019.
In this deluxe tenth anniversary edition, Marilynne Robinson introduces the beautiful novel Tinkers, which begins with an old man who lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past, where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, Tinkers is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature.

Khong, Rachel. Goodbye, Vitamin.New York, NY: Henry, Holt and Company, 2017.
Freshly disengaged from her fiancé and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves town and arrives at her parents' home to find that situation more complicated than she'd realized. Her father, a prominent history professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. Ruth's mother, meanwhile, is lucidly erratic. But as Ruth's father's condition intensifies, the comedy in her situation takes hold, gently transforming her all her grief. Told in captivating glimpses and drawn from a deep well of insight, humor, and unexpected tenderness, Goodbye, Vitamin pilots through the loss, love, and absurdity of finding one's footing in this life.

Rill, Eric. An Absent Mind.Place: Lake Union Publishing, 2015.
Seventy-one, and a man used to controlling those around him, Saul finds himself slipping into what he describes as his slow dance with death. His ramblings, humor, emotions, lucid moments, and confusion are laid bare, as well as the thoughts and feelings of his loved ones: his wife, Monique, conflicted and depressed...caring, yet angry; his daughter, Florence, compassionate, yet proper and reserved; his son, Joey, self-centered and narcissistic, seemingly indifferent to his family's challenges; and his doctor, an Alzheimer's specialist, who cares for Saul until his final days.