On Vanishing Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear

For fans of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, Eula Biss's On Immunity, and Paul Kalinithi's When Breath Becomes Air, On Vanishing offers an essential, empathic exploration of dementia, one of the most feared diseases in America, and in the process asks searching questions about what it means to face our own inevitable vanishing