A powerful and richly detailed story of Alzheimer's disease.

I scream on the bridge. I scream because I'm scared. I feel my heart beating, my legs shaking, when Granny loses her words again. "Oh dear, here we go again, but what's it called? Oh my darlings, with this disease, you can make a whole... a whole..." How can we help Granny? Where have her words gone? The child is overcome with anxiety. Little by little, his brother and the characters he meets reassure him, telling him how words can be lost and found again. Grandma finds her word— "story"—and the child learns to overcome his fear. Not by screaming... but by writing.