![]() ![]() The fabric of the Leavitt family is beautifully woven. ![]() Tangles, which is short-listed for the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Award, is her graphic memoir, which in an engaging and straightforward manner reanimates the singular spirit of her mother through words and pictures. During the course of numerous visits home, Sarah began to keep a journal and draw in sketchbooks, until her mother died in 2004. At the time, Sarah had already been living in Vancouver for a while, with her parents and older sister, Hannah, in Fredericton. Two years later, Midge Leavitt was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. When Sarah Leavitt's mother, Midge, first began to show the early symptoms of her illness in 1996 - leaving a hot iron unattended on the board, sitting in the car alone for too long after everyone else has got out, going for a walk and sometimes forgetting her return way home, suddenly unable to open a door or answer the ringing phone - she was only 52. ![]() But it is not until the attentive members are forced to loosen their hold that they will discover themselves newly defined through their loss. ![]() Once the uninvited guest of illness trespasses and enters a household, a family is reshaped to form the essential circle of care around the one who is sick. ![]()
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