![]() ![]() ![]() Tangles provides a window on the complexity of Alzheimer's disease, and ultimately opens a knot of moments, memories, and dreams to reveal a bond between a mother and a daughter that will never come apart. In this powerful graphic memoir, Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimers disease transformed her mother Midge-and her family forever. ![]() 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 word-play and poetry with his wife Sarah and her sister Hannah argue, laugh, and grieve together as they join forces to help Midge get to sleep, rage about family friends who have disappeared, or collapse in tears at the end of a heartbreaking day. In spare black and white drawings and clear, candid prose, Sarah shares her family's journey through a harrowing range of emotionsshock, denial, hope, anger, frustrationall the while learning to cope, and managing to find moments of happiness. In this powerful graphic memoir, Sarah Leavitt Graphica Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me 10.99 23. Tangles: A Story about Alzheimers, My Mother, and Me is written by Sarah Leavitt and published by Freehand Books. ![]() First, there is the way Leavitts partner. 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 Midgeand her familyforever. Tangles is a poignant and clever name for Sarah Leavitts graphic memoir about her mothers Alzheimers disease. ![]()
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