Ebook {Epub PDF} Tangles: A Story About Alzheimers My Mother and Me by Sarah Leavitt

 · 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, Brand: Skyhorse. Tangles is a poignant and clever name for Sarah Leavitt’s graphic memoir about her mother’s Alzheimer’s disease. First, there is the way Leavitt’s partner describes the mind of Sarah’s ailing mother: “Like the garden this summer tangled, but with spots of brightness.” ().Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. Tangles, A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother and Me is an internationally acclaimed graphic memoir by Sarah Leavitt.

Sarah Leavitt is a writer and cartoonist from Vancouver, BC, Canada. Her first book is a graphic memoir -- Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me (Canada: Freehand Books; UK: Jonathan Cape [Random House]; US: Skyhorse). She has also published prose and comics in magazines, newspapers and anthologies. Get this from a library! Tangles: a story about Alzheimer's, my mother and me. [Sarah Leavitt] -- 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. Tangles: a Story about Alzheimer's, my Mother and Me / Sarah Leavitt Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, c p. When the author's lively, clever mother starting showing signs of forgetfulness, her family thought it was probably just stress or overwork or something like that; sadly, it was the beginnings of a diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's.

When Sarah Leavitt's mother, Midge, first began to show the early symptoms of her illness in - leaving a hot iron unattended on the board, sitting in the car alone for too long after everyone. 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. Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me, Sarah Leavitt, Courtesy Sarah Leavitt. In this revealing and moving graphic memoir, author and artist Sarah Leavitt chronicles her mother’s decline and eventual death from Alzheimer’s disease. Tanglesis broken into three vignettes that span from the time when her mother, the emotional center of the family, was at her prime, to the point when Leavitt and her family become caretakers to the artist’s mother due to her.