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. 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. M idge Leavitt begins showing symptoms of Alzheimer's in her mid-50s. 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. What makes it all the more of a gut punch is that it is a true story. 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 a lot of books Alzheimer’s is relegated to a subplot, on that has an impact on the protagonist but doesn’t really determine the rest of the story but Leavitt puts the story front and centre.
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