Valley of Forgetting is Jennie Erin Smith's poignant and powerful look at the search for a cure to Alzheimer's. It focuses in on a group of families in Colombia who carry genes that bring the disease around distressingly early—and the researchers who are studying them.

It's a careful, up-close look at Alzheimer's, at scientific progress, and at how people struggle with dementia, and was praised for being "rendered in rich dimension" by the New Yorker. We agree.