The Living End: A Memoir of Forgetting and Forgiving

The Living End is a tribute to an unforgettable woman and a testimony to the way a disease can awaken an urgent desire for love and forgiveness. Told with sparkling wit and warmth The Living End will resonate with families coping with Alzheimers and any reader looking for hope and inspiration.. Robert Leleuxs grandmother JoAnn was a steel magnolia an elegant and devastatingly witty woman: quick-tongued generous in her affections but sometimes oddly indifferent to the emotions of those who most needed her. When JoAnn began exhibiting signs of Alzheimers shed been estranged from her daughter Roberts mother Jessica for decades. As her disease progressed JoAnn lost most of her memories but she also forgot her old wounds and anger. She became a happy gentler person who was finally able to reach out to her daughter in what became a strangely life-affirming experience an unexpected blessing that gave a divided family a second chance.