"Thanksgiving, and for the remainder of our visit, he was as crazy as I ever saw him, his words a hash of random syllables, his body a big flail of agitation" - Jonathan Franzen, How to be Alone

This is a collection of some very well written and brilliantly crafted essays! You'll find mixed reviews for this one on the internet. And that is mostly because there are a total of fourteen essays and all of them have a different theme and are written in very different tones.

I loved the first essay, My Father's Brain. The author has recounted and has mentioned in great detail the slow degradation of his father's health because of Alzheimer's disease. It is a very moving and powerful essay. It took him some time to come in terms with his father's declining mental health and even when he had understood, he still hesitated in accepting it.

It's a heartbreaking essay that gives us a glimpse of the life of an Alzheimer's patient.

Apart from this essay, there are thirteen other essays. I won't say that I enjoyed reading all of them but I do admit that all of them have been brilliantly crafted and are very well written.