Full name: Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me

Author: Sarah Leavitt Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781616086398 1616086394

In this powerful memoir the the LA Times calls “moving, rigorous, and heartbreaking," Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer’s disease transformed her mother, Midge, and her family forever. In spare blackand- 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 wordplay and poetry with his wife; Sarah and her sister Hannah argue, laugh, and grieve together as they join forces to help Midge. Tangles confronts the complexity of Alzheimer’s disease, and ultimately releases a knot of memories and dreams to reveal a bond between a mother and a daughter that will never come apart. Similar books: Calling Dr. Laura by Nicole J. Georges Something New by Lucy Knisley Kid Gloves by Lucy Knisley Everything is Flammable by Gabrielle Bell Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel The Impostor's Daughter by Laurie Sandell Displacement by Lucy Knisley Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast Good Talk by Mira Jacob Whiskey & New York by Julia Wertz An Age of License by Lucy Knisley Cancer Vixen by Marisa Acocella Marchetto Stitches by David Small Quiet Girl in a Noisy World by Debbie Tung Poppies of Iraq by Brigitte Findakly