Tangles
Subtitle: a story about Alzheimer's, my mother, and me
By: Sarah Leavitt
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9781616086398
Subjects: Families; Family; Alzheimer Disease; Comic books, strips; Mother-Child Relations; Patients; Family relationships; Mothers and daughters; Alzheimer's disease; Care
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 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. Tangles confronts the complexity of Alzheimer's 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"--Page 4 of cover.