Death in Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Daughter, Her Mother, and the Beast Called Alzheimer's

When her once-glamorous and witty novelist-mother got Alzheimer's, Eleanor Cooney moved her from her beloved Connecticut home to California in order to care for her. In tense, searing prose, punctuated with the blackest of humor, Cooney documents the slow erosion of her mother's mind, the powerful bond the two shared, and her own descent into drink and despair.



But the coping mechanism that finally serves this eloquent writer best is writing, the ability to bring to vivid life the memories h...