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Memoir
OUR LONG GOODBYE,
A Daughter, a Father, a Best Friend,
and the Journey Through Alzheimer's
Teri's memoir, OUR LONG GOODBYE, A Daughter, a Father, a Best Friend and the Journey Through Alzheimer’s will be published by She Writes Press, November 3, 2026. The story is a true labor of love, and she is pleased that it will be available to the world, helping others navigate the arduous journey of Alzheimer’s.
From the moment Teri Drobnick’s father is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she feels like he’s slipping away. As she grapples with an uncertain future and the steady erosion of his memory, Teri leans on Uncle Bob—her dad’s best friend of eighty years.
As Teri navigates the emotional limbo of caring for a parent with dementia, she and Uncle Bob, united by mutual grief, form a deeper bond from the stories he shares of his lifelong friendship with her father. Beginning with their boyhood in the 1940s, Uncle Bob recounts first dates, college at UC Berkeley, marriages, building a business, raising children, surviving loss. In the present, Teri confronts the anger, shame, and role reversal that accompany memory decline—but through the past, she finds a way to reconnect with her father.
With a narrative braided between past and present, Our Long Goodbye is a poignant love letter from a daughter to her father that explores anticipatory grief, enduring friendship, and the profound power of shared memory.
The memoir will be published on Nov. 3, 2026.
Early ReaderReviews:
A beautifully written tribute that captures both the heartbreak of Alzheimer’s and the enduring power of love, friendship, and family. An absolute treasure.
~Cherie Kephart, award-winning author of A Few Minor Adjustments
From the moment we meet the two Bobs, digging foxholes together as boys in mid-WWII San Francisco, with its blackout curtains and ration books, I was engrossed in their sweet friendship. With interweaving chapters that tell the harrowing story of a father's descent into Alzheimer's, this is a tender portrait of enduring relationships. Drobnick is both a loving daughter and a brave writer, tending to her father well in both life and in the pages of this beautiful book.
~Monica Wesolowska, author of Holding Sivan
What a lovely heartwarming story of two friends, Bobby and Bob, best friends for nearly 80 years, in sickness and in health. The importance of friends like Bob in the lives of persons like Bobby, suffering from dementia, cannot be underestimated. Bob’s daughter brings the story of their friendship to life with warmth and tenderness.
~Gayatri Devi, MD, MS, FAAN
Clinical Professor of Neurology, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Director, Park Avenue Neurology
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Today, there are 5-6 million Americans who are living with Alzheimer’s disease. In Our Long Goodbye, Teri Roche Drobnick tells the story of one person, her father Bobby, from his earliest years to his death from Alzheimer’s in his late 80s. She describes his many successes and occasional failures with love and emotion. Through it all, Bobby emerges as an individual whose life was lived in the fullest, even though Alzheimer’s disease took much of it from him. The power of telling the story of one life and the benefits that come from telling that story are vivid and palpable. Alzheimer’s may end a life, but it cannot erase the memory of who the person was and is.
~Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH
Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Co-author of The 36-Hour Day, and author of Is It Alzheimer’s?
Told through Teri’s tender, observant eyes, this is a story about the true meaning of devotion: the agonizing pain of watching a mind disappear, the fierce beauty of a friendship that refuses to surrender, and the heartbreaking realization that love transcends memory.
~Mona Halaby, author of In My Mother’s Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns
Publisher: She Writes Press, shewritespress.com, Brooke Warner, brooke (at) stablebookgroup (dot) com
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Distribution: Simon and Schuster
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ISBN# 979-8-89636-196-1
EISBN# 979-8-89636-197-8
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Publicist: Caitlin Hamilton Marketing & Publicity, caitlinhamiltonmarketing.com,
Caitlin Hamilton Summie, caitlin (at) caitlinhamiltonmarketing (dot) com