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Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me | Sarah Leavitt
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What do you do when your outspoken, passionate, and quick-witted mother starts fading into a forgetful, fearful woman? In this powerful graphic memoir, Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer?s disease transformed her mother Midge?and her family?forever. In spare black and 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 word-play and poetry with his wife; Sarah and her sister Hannah argue, laugh, and grieve together as they join forces to help Midge get to sleep, rage about family friends who have disappeared, or collapse in tears at the end of a heartbreaking day. Tangles provides a window on the complexity of Alzheimer?s disease, and ultimately opens a knot of moments, memories, and dreams to reveal a bond between a mother and a daughter that will never come apart.
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MemoirsForMe
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It's #Hour24 and this Californian is still awake and ready to read for a few more hours. 😳
Just finished this heart-wrenching, yet very powerful memoir about Alzheimer's. I lost my Dad to this horrible disease 4 years ago, and the author really tells it like it is thru her creative imagery and storytelling. I will be sharing this with my local Alz support group. It's that good.
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VanChocStrawberry That sounds like a tough (and maybe cathartic?) read. 7y
MemoirsForMe @VanChocStrawberry Great point, it's definitely cathartic. Plus it's a sweet tribute to her mom who was an amazing teacher and also avid reader. But it's difficult because she holds no punches. And Alz, as you may know, is not pretty. 7y
Mollyanna I lost an Uncle and my Grandmother to Alz. What a horrible disease for the sufferer and those that love them. I may have to add this to my TBR... 7y
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MemoirsForMe @Mollyanna So sorry to hear about your Uncle and Grandmother. My prayers are with you. It is such a devastating disease to see our loved ones go thru. I keep hearing that Still Alice is also a good book. 7y
Andrew65 Well done on the time 👍 (edited) 7y
Mollyanna Thank you. My thoughts and prayers to you as well on the loss of your father. It is definitely tough. And I worry about my mother (it was her mother) and myself for the future. 7y
MemoirsForMe @Andrew65 Thx! My audiobooks really help boost the time. 😊👍🏻 7y
Andrew65 @UwannaPublishme I think you need audiobooks as a break to help you get to 24 hours. 7y
MemoirsForMe @Andrew65 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 7y
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Having ham and eggs for dinner while reading this illustrated memoir by an author whose mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's when she was only 52. Could be a tear jerker, but an important read.
Hope everyone is catching up on their reading and getting some good food or good sleep. 🤗💕
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Jinjer Yum!!! 7y
MemoirsForMe @Jinjer 😊👍🏻 7y
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MrsAlexanderHamilton
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Mehso-so

It was okay. Definitely emotionally poignant, but also a little dull. 💁🏼

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