Sarah Leavitt Knihy

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 with a devastating diagnosis, and managing to find moments of happiness. Tangles confronts the complexity of Alzheimer’s 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.

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, 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 wordplay and poetry with his wife; Sarah and her sister Hannah argue, laugh, and grieve together as they join forces to help Midge. 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.

"Agnes, Murderess is a graphic novel about the bloody folk legend of Agnes McVee, a roadhouse owner, madam, and serial killer in the Cariboo region of British Columbia during the gold rush."-- Provided by publisher

Erinnerungen, Gefühle und Träume dreier Menschen, die mit der Alzheimerkrankheit der Mutter konfrontiert sind. Was macht Alzheimer mit den Familien der Betroffenen? Was bedeutet es für eine Tochter, wenn die Mutter sie nicht mehr erkennt? Die erste Graphic Novel zum Thema Alzheimer berührt durch Ehrlichkeit und Humor, und durch einen überwältigenden Realismus, der auch vor den dunklen Seiten des Lebens mit Demenzkranken nicht zurückschreckt. Wertvolle Informationen zum Umgang mit Alzheimer wechseln sich ab mit berührenden Bildern des Ehemanns und der zwei erwachsenen Töchter, die trotz allem darum kämpfen, ihr eigenes Leben weiterzuführen, und dabei immer wieder Momente des Glücks zu finden.