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Tangles A Story About Alzheimers, My Mother and Me Sarah Leavitt

Tangles A Story About Alzheimers, My Mother and Me von Sarah Leavitt

Tangles A Story About Alzheimers, My Mother and Me Sarah Leavitt

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Zusammenfassung

What do you do when your outspoken, passionate and quick-witted mother starts fading into a forgetful, fearful woman? This memoir, reveals how Alzheimer's disease transformed the author's mother Midge - and her family - forever. It shares her family's journey through a harrowing range of emotions, all the while learning to cope.

Tangles A Story About Alzheimers, My Mother and Me Zusammenfassung

Tangles A Story About Alzheimers, My Mother and Me Sarah Leavitt

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 confronts 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.

Tangles A Story About Alzheimers, My Mother and Me Bewertungen

"Heartbreaking memoir... Stark details...are married with warm, funny recollections of Jewish-Canadian life" -- James Smart Guardian "An extraordinarily moving and vivid account, in text and cartoon-style pictures, of the life and death of an Alzheimer's patient" -- John Bayley, author of Iris "Brimming with humility and insight, Leavitt proves herself a skilled and unflinching memoirist. Her spare, evocative illustrations and the tender restraint of her prose will leave you breathless, heartbroken and profoundly grateful" -- Nancy Lee, author of Dead Girls "Sarah Leavitt uses the medium of comics to tell her story with more economy and power than either words or pictures could muster by themselves. She brings a good eye for the telling detail -the small observations that reveal larger truths - to her memoir of a family in crisis. Tangles is the work of a perceptive, creative, and honest storyteller" -- Brian Fies, author of Mom's Cancer

Über Sarah Leavitt

Sarah Leavitt writes both prose and comics. Her writing has appeared in Geist, The Globe and Mail, Vancouver Review, The Georgia Straight and Xtra West. Leavitt has written short documentaries for Definitely Not the Opera on CBC Radio, and her non-fiction has appeared in a number of anthologies, including Nobody's Mother (Heritage 2006) and Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer's Disease (Kent State University Press 2009). She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. Tangles is her first book.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR011791536
9780224094221
022409422X
Tangles A Story About Alzheimers, My Mother and Me Sarah Leavitt
Sarah Leavitt
Gebraucht - Wie Neu
Broschiert
Vintage Publishing
2011-11-03
132
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