Ruth is thirty and her life is falling apart: she and her fiance are moving house, but he's moving out to live with another woman; her career is going nowhere; and then she learns that her father, a history professor beloved by his students, has Alzheimer's. At Christmas, her mother begs her to stay on and help ... The beautifully observed story of a woman at a crossroads and a complex tale of dementia and its impact on a family. For readers of Miranda July and Lauren Groff.