Tangles ─ A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me

In this powerful memoir the the LA Times calls“moving, rigorous, and heartbreaking," Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer’s disease transformedher mother, Midge, and her family forever. In spare blackand-white drawings and clear, candid prose, Sarah shares herfamily’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 educatedintellectual, 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 asthey join forces to help Midge. Tangles confronts the complexityof Alzheimer’s disease, and ultimately releases a knot of memoriesand dreams to reveal a bond between a mother and a daughter thatwill never come apart.