5/20/2023 0 Comments Tangles by Sarah Leavitt![]() ![]() I'm pretty shy at author events, Kathy, though I find it helps to be able to say I'm a book blogger: it makes me less shy about asking to take a pic with the author! :) ![]() I didn’t think to take any pictures (I was too engrossed in each chapter), but I did get someone to take a picture of the two of us: She then read us five chapters of her book onscreen, projecting the first page of the chapter and then each panel in turn. Once a small group had assembled, she first told us a bit about her mother (who was diagnosed at age 54 and had the disease for six years) and her writing process (Sarah took notes while her mother was sick and this is her first book). ![]() Sarah greeted me and another audience member (who turned out to be Ian McGillis, who blogs for The Gazette) at the door and ushered us downstairs. So on an excruciatingly hot day the week before last I headed over to the Yellow Door coffeehouse, which is a basement venue that has welcomed the likes of Margaret Atwood and Joni Mitchell (back in the day). I first heard about her book on Susan Olding’s blog, Proved on the Pulses: On the Essay and Its Literary Cousins (Susan wrote Pathologies: A Life in Essays, one of my favourite books, which I reviewed a couple of years ago) my sister Brogan had also highly recommended Tangles to me. I recently happened across our local paper’s literary listings for the week and saw that Sarah Leavitt, who wrote the graphic memoir, Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me was going to be in town for a reading. ![]()
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