01306cam a2200265 4500 1262056003 TxAuBib 100325s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010012317 9781594487729 1594487723 (OCoLC)19447 DLC DLC IG# BTCTA YDXCP UPZ IH9 TxAuBib Mosley, Walter. The last days of Ptolemy Grey / Walter Mosley. New York : Riverhead Books, 2010. 277 p. ; 22 cm. Ptolemy Grey is a 91-year-old man, suffering from dementia and living as a recluse in his Los Angeles apartment. Then Robyn Small, a 17-year-old family friend, appears and helps clean up his apartment and straighten out his life. A reinvigorated Ptolemy volunteers for an experimental medical program that restores his mind, and he uses his last days--shortened now by the medical experiment--to delve into the mystery of the recent drive-by shooting death of his great-nephew, Reggie. Older African Americans Fiction. African American families Fiction. Old age Fiction. Memory Fiction. Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction.