Tangles

“Sarah Leavitt uses the medium of comics to tell her story with more economy and power than either words or pictures could muster by themselves. She brings a good eye for the telling detail—the small observations that reveal larger truths—to her memoir of a family in crisis. Tangles is the work of a perceptive, creative, and honest storyteller.” BRIAN FIES

“Not only a spot-on portrait of the dark comedy and vast sadness that Alzheimer’s contains, the book is a fitting tribute to Leavitt’s mom.” VANITY FAIR

“The narrative is human, honest, loving and occasionally even funny… Not simply the story of a disease, but of the flawed, complex, intelligent people whose lives it transformed.” KIRKUS REVIEWS, starred review

“An extraordinarily moving and vivid account, in text and cartoon-style pictures, of the life and death of an Alzheimer’s patient.” JOHN BAYLEY, author of Elegy for Iris

“Says Leavitt, ‘Our parents taught us, as very young children, that language, words, and books belonged to us, that they were exciting and powerful.’ Pairing words with simply drawn, evocative line art, Leavitt has crafted a glowing, heart-wrenching memorial to the woman who gave her such a gift. Useful for anyone with an Alzheimer’s patient among family or friends, for health-care professionals, and for graphic arts programs as an example of how simple art can tell a powerful story. So far, the only published Alzheimer’s-related graphic novel—and highly recommended.” LIBRARY JOURNAL

“In framing her loss and her uncertainty through the lens of love, Leavitt manages to find a fragile resolution: conditional, moving, rigorous and heartbreaking at once.” LA TIMES

“Sarah writes and draws with perspicacity, humour and even anger… Her experience pulsates with realism and life, even while her mother is slowly disappearing… By creating this book, she has re-created her mother, a woman anyone would be privileged to have known.” VANCOUVER SUN