Another from the 2011 Amazon list. If you've ever seen the movie "50 First Dates" with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore (and several hysterical supporting characters!), you know the back-story to this book. Basically, the main character Christine wakes up every day thinking she's an early-twenties college student. In real life, she's in her '50's (or so), having had severe amnesia for most of her life. The book describes her discovery, with the help of a friendly psychiatrist (who wants to use her as the basis for an article or book about her condition), of how she became who she is, and the background of her life.
With the help of the psychiatrist, Christine starts keeping a journal of her "discoveries" every day. As she reads the journal each morning (after the doctor calls her to remind her of it), she starts remembering more and more. As she remembers more, she eventually discovers how she got the amnesia. While there are a lot of good "discoveries" that she makes throughout the book, I'd suspected the ending after getting about half-way through. In interesting book, though, full of insightful information about the relationships we may have, and what we'd do if we suddently lost them.
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