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May 27, 2008 | ISBN 9780143113683 Buy
May 31, 2007 | ISBN 9781101215463 Buy
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May 27, 2008 | ISBN 9780143113683
May 31, 2007 | ISBN 9781101215463
Previously published in Hardcover as Dancing With Rose One journalist’s riveting and surprisingly hopeful in-the-trenches view of Alzheimer’s Nearly five million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer’s. Like many children of Alzheimer’s sufferers, Lauren Kessler, an accomplished journalist, was devastated by the disease that seemed to erase her mother’s identity even before claiming her life. But suppose people with Alzheimer’s are not slates wiped blank. Suppose they experience friendship and loss, romance and jealousy, joy and sorrow? To better understand this debilitating condition, Kessler enlists as a bottom-of-the-rung caregiver at an Alzheimer’s facility and learns lessons that challenge what we think we know about the disease. A compelling, clear-eyed, and emotionally resonant narrative, Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer’s offers a new optimistic look at what the disease can teach us and a much-needed tonic for those faced with providing care for someone they love.
Lauren Kessler is the author of nine books, among them Stubborn Twig, which received the Frances Fuller Victor Award for the year’s best work of literary nonfiction. She directs the grad-uate program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon… More about Lauren Kessler
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