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2023 IPNE Award Winner, Narrative Nonfiction 2022 Foreword INDIES Finalist, Health (Adult Nonfiction) 2023 Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist 5-Star Readers' Favorite What do you do when your reality slips away? If you're Sky Yardley and Jane Dwinell, you accept each new challenge, reshape your life, and write. When Sky was diagnosed with ""probable early stage Alzheimer's"" at age 66, he was determined to live as fully with his new reality as possible. He researched dementia, talked about dementia, connected with other people with the disease, and, finally, he wrote about it. With humor and honesty, love and compassion, Sky and his wife Jane describe what it's like to live with a constantly evolving and mysterious new life. ""The brain is a mysterious thing,"" writes Jane, as Sky muses about traveling unmapped roads with no GPS. Welcome to Alzheimer's Canyon: there is one way in, and no way out. Follow Sky and Jane as they navigate this journey they did not ask to take, a journey that balances pain, loss, and confusion with gratitude, wonder, and transformation.

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This exquisite and intimate book is like a love letter from an unknown address. Jane Dwinell and Sky Yardley take us on a journey with them into the uncharted world of Alzheimer's Disease. They bravely navigate the depths of Alzheimer's Canyon, shining a light in a disorienting landscape. Their unflinching honesty about their lived experience serves as an emotional road map for anyone facing an unexpected challenge. Out of her grief, Dwinell offers this gift, and hope. -David Goodman, bestselling author and host of The Vermont Conversation

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Jane Dwinell, author of ""Birth Stories: Mystery, Power and Creation,"" is a retired RN, freelance writer, and Unitarian Universalist minister. Sky Yardley was a family mediator before being diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2016. His spouse, Jane Dwinell, author of Birth Stories: Mystery, Power and Creation, is a retired RN, freelance writer, and Unitarian Universalist minister. Together they chronicled Sky's five-year decline from his fatal disease, the sixth-leading cause of death in the US.

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