{"product_id":"the-vanishing-family-by-robert-kolker","title":"The Vanishing Family by Robert Kolker","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book is a premium first copy, similar to the original but not the original.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"qMYqUG_convSearchResultHighlightRoot\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-turn-id-container=\"request-WEB:14f43849-cbf8-46d9-a1f5-4ffb4beb5aca-55\" data-is-intersecting=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none [\u0026amp;:has([data-writing-block])\u0026gt;*]:pointer-events-auto R6Vx5W_threadScrollVars scroll-mb-[calc(var(--scroll-root-safe-area-inset-bottom,0px)+var(--thread-response-height))] scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" dir=\"auto\" data-turn-id=\"request-WEB:14f43849-cbf8-46d9-a1f5-4ffb4beb5aca-55\" data-turn-id-container=\"request-WEB:14f43849-cbf8-46d9-a1f5-4ffb4beb5aca-55\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-112\" data-turn=\"assistant\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-8 [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-conversation-screenshot-content=\"\" class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\" data-dil-talvt-response-state=\"complete\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col relative gap-4 [\u0026amp;\u0026gt;div:has([data-free-thinking-preview-answer=true])+:is(.text-message,.relative:has(\u0026gt;.text-message))]:-mt-2 grow\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TzNmiG_container gap-4 [\u0026amp;\u0026gt;div:has([data-free-thinking-preview-answer=true])+:is(.text-message,.relative:has(\u0026gt;.text-message))]:-mt-2\" data-streaming-response-group=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-dil-submit-prewarm=\"request-WEB:14f43849-cbf8-46d9-a1f5-4ffb4beb5aca-55\" data-message-id=\"819938a2-1b21-4e54-802e-33d616138b9d\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-model-dil-v2-message=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-dil-widget-copy-target=\"\" data-dil-chart-clipboard-alt=\"Chart\" class=\"puik-root not-prose not-markdown\" data-theme=\"dark\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" class=\"fv0XaG_DilRenderer fv0XaG_DilResponseRoot J4E5kq_Reveal dil-first-visible-layout w-full max-w-full\" data-d-inline-reveal=\"\" data-d-direction=\"col\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"w6asjq_TextBase _85PZeG_Text PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-d-text-flow=\"\" data-d-component=\"text\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road comes the heart-wrenching journey of a family facing an unthinkable destiny, whose flawed genetic code might hold the long-sought key to a cure for dementia.”A gripping real-life horror story of dementia, love and grief. . . . Kolker displays his genius for the immersive detail.” –The New York Times Book Review “Robert Kolker’s new book is at once a tragedy, a mystery and a testament to a family’s love.” –NPR and “With his breathtaking chronicle of a family with a rare form of dementia, Robert Kolker claims his title as the Ann Patchett of nonfiction family dramas. and ” –BookPage (starred review)In the idyllic American town of Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania, there lived a family with nine siblings, the youngest a girl named Barb. As the older children headed off to college and started their lives, only Barb was home to see their beautiful, still-young mother fall under a gothic spell, changing into someone she didn’t withdrawn, neglectful, uncaring. Thus begins The Vanishing Family, journalist Robert Kolker’s heartbreaking follow-up to his beloved Hidden Valley Road. This family, we learn, has a genetic mutation that causes dementia, but with an especially cruel twist. As early as their forties, formerly loving parents and hard-driving executives will lose their jobs, have affairs, take up drinking–shed all inhibitions and sense of responsibility–and become people their families hardly know. Their former personalities seem to vanish–and there is a fifty-fifty chance that it will happen to their children, too.The Vanishing Family unfolds with dramatic intensity as the siblings begin to realize that what happened to their mother is happening to first one, then two, three, four, and more begin to change. Sue, in search of a calling, finds her place in caring for the others. Barb sets out to find a cure. Alongside their story, Kolker weaves in the dramatic scientific fight against dementia; after decades of blind alleys, this family’s rare form of FTD (frontotemporal dementia) might lead to a breakthrough in the prevention and treatment of all dementia–including the scourge of Alzheimer’s disease. Moving, intimate, unexpectedly hopeful, The Vanishing Family is an enthralling narrative about one family’s fate, and a medical detective story that speaks to all of us who fear losing ourselves at the end.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Last Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Paper Cover","offer_id":67729113678013,"sku":null,"price":799.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hard Cover","offer_id":67729113710781,"sku":null,"price":899.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/6952\/1450\/files\/PDF-EPUB-The-Vanishing-Family-Love-Fate-and-the-Quest-to-End-Dementia-by-Robert-Kolker-Download.jpg?v=1791633861","url":"https:\/\/www.thelastbooksstore.com\/products\/the-vanishing-family-by-robert-kolker","provider":"The Last Bookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}