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.
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..
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.
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.
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