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Tangles : a story about Alzheimer's, my mother, and me / Sarah Leavitt.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781551111179
- Physical Description: 127 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : Freehand Books, 2010
- Copyright: ©2010
Content descriptions
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Donation ; Marni Stanley ; 2023/08. |
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| Genre: | Graphic novels. |
Available copies
- 10 of 11 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Castlegar Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 11 total copies.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castlegar Public Library | GN 362.19683 LEA (Text) | 35146001661446 | Graphic Novel Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Broadview Press
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 Alzheimerâs disease transformed her mother Midgeâand her familyâforever.
In spare black and white drawings and clear, candid prose, Sarah shares her familyâs journey through a harrowing range of emotionsâshock, denial, hope, anger, frustrationâall the while learning to cope with a devastating diagnosis, and managing to find moments of happiness. Tangles confronts the complexity of Alzheimerâs disease, and gradually opens a knot of moments, memories, and dreams to reveal a bond between a mother and a daughter that will never come apart.
- Broadview Press
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 Alzheimerâs disease transformed her mother Midgeâand her familyâforever.
- Litdistco
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 Midge--and her family--forever.
In spare black and 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 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.
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.
