Author: Sarah B. Smith

Sarah B. Smith is the published name used by Sarah Bearden Smith for a personal account of her family's experience with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Broken Beauty follows Smith, her mother, whom the family called Beauty, and relatives adjusting to an illness that changes memory, independence, and familiar relationships. Greenleaf Book Group Press published the memoir in 2019 with the subtitle Piecing Together Lives Shattered by Early-Onset Alzheimer's. Apple Books classifies it as biography and memoir, while its publisher description emphasizes the perspective of a daughter who was also raising young children when her mother's condition emerged. Smith writes from within family and faith communities rather than as a clinical specialist. Broken Beauty is consequently grounded in caregiving, grief, practical disruption, and the effort to sustain affection as recognition changes. It offers a family witness to illness, not a medical handbook or a detached history of the disease.