The Memory Chalet

Tony Judt dictated this book while suffering from ALS, a disease that causes you to slowly lose all motor function until eventually death with no impact on your ability to think and feel. A tragic, unique, and profound perspective to look back on a life.

He knows how to pick and choose snapshots from his past that both capture that era as well as providing context on the state of the world and how it differs to today.

I love a good book on the beautiful moments found in a memory from a writer who knows how to write. There is no way anyone reading the final lines of the book isn't feeling something.