Spin Cycle

<p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Best Fiction Storytrade Awards (winner across all fiction categories)</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Finalist Hawthorne Prize </strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A must read for anyone who feels lost in the wilderness caring for an older loved one. -Bella Andre New York Times bestselling author of <em>The Sullivans</em></strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>An intimate yet epic journey digging into the messy truths and secrets connecting parents and their children. -Barry Hertz The Globe and Mail</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>High school math teacher Ezra Pavic is having a hard time. His wife left him his son barely tolerates him and now he's being blindsided by something he never saw coming: the emotional spin cycle of parenting a parent. His mother Irene has dementia and it's exhausting. Caring for her is a constant source of frustration resentment and guilt. Lots of guilt.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Overwhelmed by it all Ezra opens a strip-mall school to help others-and himself-become better caregivers. As he learns to handle the personalities of his nine misfit students Ezra must also navigate the complex feelings he has toward his mother. It doesn't help that she adores his do-nothing slacker brother.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But Ezra hasn't told his students that he also has an agenda beyond becoming a more compassionate caregiver. And it turns out so does one of his students. Ezra confides the entire tale to his childhood friend Danny as he attempts to sort it all out and find room in his heart again for compassion and love.</span></p>