Title: Buffalo lockjaw
Description: James Fitzroy travels home to Buffalo for the Thanksgiving holiday?and to assist his mother in committing suicide. Ellen, only 56 and a nurse, author, and patients-rights activist, has Alzheimer?s. Several years before, as her dementia deepened, she told James she planned to commit suicide; he talked her out of it but now understands that she knew best. But James is the slacker in the family. Can he do it?--From Booklist.
Subjects: Parent and adult child, Alzheimer's disease, Fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Mothers and sons, fiction
Places: Buffalo (N.Y.)