Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781616086398)

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
ISBN-10: 1616086394
ISBN-13: 9781616086398
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2012
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 10.40h x 9.10w x 0.50d

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