Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me

ISBN: 1616086394

Author: Leavitt, Sarah

Condition: New

In this powerful memoir the the LA Times calls moving, rigorous, and heartbreaking," Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimers disease transformed her mother, Midge, and her family forever. In spare blackand- white drawings and clear, candid prose, Sarah shares her familys journey through a harrowing range of emotions-shock, denial, hope, anger, frustration-all the while learning to cope, and managing to find moments of happiness. Midge, a Harvard educated intellectual, struggles to comprehend the simplest words; Sarahs father, Rob, slowly adapts to his new role as full-time caretaker, but still finds time for wordplay and poetry with his wife; Sarah and her sister Hannah argue, laugh, and grieve together as they join forces to help Midge. Tangles confronts the complexity of Alzheimers disease, and ultimately releases a knot of memories and dreams to reveal a bond between a mother and a daughter that will never come apart.