Tangles
A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
By Sarah Leavitt
(Skyhorse Publishing, Paperback, 9781616086398, 128pp.)
Publication Date: May 2012
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback
Categories: Personal Memoirs
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Description
In this powerful memoir the New York Times called a poignant account, Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer 's disease transformed her mother, Midge, and her family forever. In spare blackand- white drawings and clear, candid prose, Sarah shares her family 's 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; Sarah 's 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 Alzheimer 's 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.
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