WHILE MARGARET AND I battled our mother’s 15-year Alzheimer’s disease, we also battled one another, as well as pretty much everyone else. Or that’s the way it still feels, even all these years later. And maybe nothing got us mixing it up as did the suggestion by one friend that we explain her fate to our mother and let her take her own life. There were such vast differences in how Margaret and I viewed our mother’s care and treatment, and ultimately her fate. Never was the she said/she said aspects of our lives more vivid, and never did I realize how universal this dynamic can be. Until now, thanks to Zoe FitzGerald Carter’s new book.
All of that drama—and more—is captured in this beautiful memoir called Imperfect Endings. We have the pleasure of hosting Zoe FitzGerald Carter here at TSP, talking to us, and answering the question of how writing about her mother, who struggled with Parkinson’s disease and decided to kill herself, affected the three daughters–Zoe, and her two sisters.
Despite having written extensively about our differences over our mother’s Alzheimer’s, I found this book to be utterly illuminating, as I did the author herself and her take on sisterhood.
Please join me in the TSP Galleries, and meet Zoe FitzGerald Carter.
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