Lynn Casteel Harper's On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What it Means to Disappear, is a a New York Times Book Editor’s Choice selection that weaves together intimate reflections on her own family’s history with dementia, her work as a Baptist minister and nursing home chaplain, along with scientific, medical and historical reflections on the disease. She will be in conversation with National Book Award-winning author and Fairfield professor Phil Klay at the Dogwood Room.