Title: Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me
Author: Sarah Leavitt
Illustrator: Sarah Leavitt
Primary Health Topic: Alzheimer’s Disease
Secondary Health Topic(s): Caregiving
Special Considerations: Nudity
Publication Date: May 1, 2012
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
ISBN: 9781616086398
GM Review: Guest Review by Nathan Sethu
Annotation: Tangles is a memoir with a complex story about caring for a parent with Alzheimer’s disease using a simple art style. The simplicity evokes strong feelings of the frustrations, sadness, anger, grief, and loss that come from caregiving. The reader follows Leavitt as her mother gradually loses who she is.
Annotated By: Alice Jaggers