Matthew Thomas

Author of: WE ARE NOT OURSELVES

The New Yorker: Page-Turner

A Place Beyond Words: The Literature of Alzheimer’s

BY STEFAN MERRILL BLOCK

Matthew Thomas’s realist epic, “We Are Not Ourselves,” exceeds the usual boundaries of fiction on the subject. Tracking one family through three generations, it has a “Buddenbrooks”-like quality, offering a vision of a society in flux that is at once expansive and tangibly detailed. Read the essay here.

©2017 Matthew Thomas