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When her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, Catherine Landis set out to do something to protect her own brain. Hoping to avoid a similar fate, she went searching for brain exercises and landed on math. Considering herself innumerate, she was flustered by the mere word. Could she relearn it? Could this source of embarrassment become an opportunity? TWO TRAINS LEAVE THE STATION: A Meditation on Age, Alzheimer's, and Arithmetic, is the story of how Catherine relearned math while grappling with her mother's illness and her own inevitable aging.

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Catherine Landis can't do math and her beloved and brilliant mother has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. This coming-of-late-middle age memoir is like sitting down to tea with a dear friend and trying to make sense of a crazy world together. Written with humor and tremendous honesty, Landis shares her heart and head with luminous detail, beauty, and candor. For anyone who has raised kids and parents and themselves to wake up one day and think, what the hell? This is one beautiful book. Kerry Madden, author of OFFSIDES, GENTLE'S HOLLER, and UP CLOSE: HARPER LEE

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