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Marion Roach is the author of Another Name for Madness, a memoir of her family’s struggle with her mother’s Alzheimer’s disease and the co-author of Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers. A commentator on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, she has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Prevention, Vogue, Newsday, Good Housekeeping, Discover, and American Health. She lives with her family in upstate New York and teaches a memoir course at the Arts Center of the Capital Region.