Books About Loving Someone Who Doesn't Remember You
Memory loss stories usually follow the person forgetting. These follow the one who remembers: caring for, waiting for and loving someone who no longer knows who they are to you.
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1. The Forty-Year Passenger On this site
by Simran Mehta
Every morning Abel carries tea to his brother, who no longer knows they're related. On this train, every door costs one true memory of the person you'd go back for.
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2. The Buried Giant
by Kazuo Ishiguro
An elderly couple travel through a land under a mist of forgetting, unsure whether remembering will save their love or end it.
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3. The Notebook
by Nicholas Sparks
A man reads the story of their life aloud, every day, to the wife who can't remember it.
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4. Still Alice
by Lisa Genova
Early-onset Alzheimer's from the inside, and a family learning to love who she is now.
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5. Elizabeth Is Missing
by Emma Healey
A woman with dementia is sure her friend has disappeared, and nobody will listen.
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6. When Darkness Blooms On this site
by Simran Mehta
Two people who may have loved each other before, meeting again with no memory of it.