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

In this powerful memoir the the LA Times calls "moving, rigorous, and heartbreaking," 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.

Author: Sarah Leavitt
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 05/01/2012
Pages: 132
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 10.40h x 9.10w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781616086398


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2012
Library Journal 05/15/2012 pg. 66
Foreword 08/30/2012