King of Coosa

<p>Catherine suffers from Alzheimer's disease. </p><p>David feels diminished by his career.</p><p>This mother and son are bound by both blood and their love of Alabama's Deep South natural beauty-and now by challenges to their very being how they perceive themselves and how they move forward in life.</p><p>Drawing on his years as the son-in-law of someone with Alzheimer's as well as his own challenges with work author George Wayland Taylor wrote <em>King of Coosa</em> to explore what it's like to live under stifling conditions. Tracing the unique but parallel paths of this mother and son-Catherine as she speaks for herself during her lucid moments and David as he physically moves through Tuscaloosa County and the Black Belt of Alabama to engage himself and others-Taylor asks Will they each find resolution and peace? <em>Can</em> they?</p>