num_pages: 127
description: 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 Alzheimers disease transformed her mother Midgeand her familyforever. In spare black and white drawings and clear candid prose Sarah shares her familys journey through a harrowing range of emotionsshock denial hope anger frustrationall the while learning to cope with a devastating diagnosis and managing to find moments of happiness. Tangles confronts the complexity of Alzheimers disease and gradually opens a knot of moments memories and dreams to reveal a bond between a mother and a daughter that will never come apart.
language: English
title: Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
publisher: Freehand Books