Bøger udgivet af Irene Weinberger Books

A must read for anyone who's ever wanted to take a trip down someone else's memory lane, and at the same time revisit the warmth of their own. Mitch Levenberg writes about writing and reading his writing.

The death of Sharon Hobart launches Marco Navarro into an exploration of the recent past. Did she love him, or did she have an ulterior reason for befriending him? Was she connected to Allied Chemicals Corporation other than socially? Having emerged from that segment of society, her father a wealthy industrialist, did she try to extricate herself from that environment, or was her acting career just a ruse? Even if he must do the police work himself, Marco has to find out.

The Dementia Diaries is the story, in journal form, of the last five months of the narrator's mother's life in an assisted living facility in Florida. As time goes on he begins to realize it is no longer he who can depend on his mother but she who now must depend on him for her very survival. At the same time, with her oncoming Dementia, he must cope more and more with her feelings of frustration and humiliation. "If I tell her she needs to take her medication . . . she gets angry and wants to die," he writes. 'Why are you doing this to me?' she says. 'Why are you doing this to your mother?' "She begins to remind me," the narrator says, "of the Exorcist when the devil takes over the priest's mother. 'Why do you do this to me!" she screams at him. 'You are not my mother!' the priest screams back. But he is wrong. She is his mother. She is all our mothers and we are all her sons."

In 10 chapters, each from a particular character's point of view, Willis follows the Scarlins from 1950 into the 1970s. The chapters are like a series of home movies, rich in detail and emotion; we see all the characters from the inside and the outside, getting a remarkably complete picture of them.