Tangles confronts the complexityof Alzheimer s disease, and ultimately releases a knot of memoriesand dreams to reveal a bond between a mother and a daughter thatwill never come apart. 5 Sarah Leavitt came to the Puget Sound campus to discuss her book Tangles, a story told in comics about her experience with her mother’s Alzheimer’s disease. In this powerful graphic memoir, Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimers disease transformed her mother Midge - and her family forever. Midge, a Harvardeducatedintellectual, 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 asthey join forces to help Midge. In spare blackand-white drawings and clear, candid prose, Sarah shares herfamily 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 Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me, Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer’s disease transformed her mother, Midge, and her family forever. In this powerful memoir the New York Times called a poignantaccount, Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer s disease transformedher mother, Midge, and her family forever. Leavitt’s story depicts her and her family at their best and their worst. In spare blackand-white drawings and clear, candid prose, Sarah shares herfamily. In her powerful graphic memoir, Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me, Sarah Leavitt shares her family’s six-year journey as Alzheimer’s reduces the mother she knew and loved into someone unrecognizable.

Tangles by sarah leavitt