As Our Parents Age So Do We

Was the author thinking about his own death?

Adult children and their parents who are inveterate readers of fiction, especially prize-winning fiction, may want to read two posts at VOXXI (Hispanic Voice of the 21st Century) about Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

The two posts are related and inter-connected, examining the tragedy of a great Nobel prize-winning writer who begins to suffer from memory problems, which may in fact be dementia.

• A Story Ending Gabriel Garcia Marquez Won’t Likely Write – His Own

• Dementia of Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Chronicle of a Foretold Silence