ON PLUTO: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's with Greg O'Brien

Award-winning journalist Greg O’Brien will be reading from his new book, On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s, giving a short talk and signing copies of his new book at the Yellow Umbrella in Chatham, MA on August 30 at 12:00pm.

In 2009, award-winning journalist Greg O’Brien was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s; he was just 59 years old. It’s the kind of news that no one is prepared for, and yet O’Brien, who had watched both his maternal grandfather and mother succumb to the disease, was perhaps more prepared than most. O’Brien turned his reporter’s eyes upon himself, taking copious notes, and chronicling the daily challenges and indignities of the disease. The result of that work is “On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s,” a deeply personal memoir which O’Brien has dedicated to his mother; her courage, he says, taught him to stand firm in faith against “a demon of a disease.”