Book Review: ‘Slow Dancing With a Stranger’
What is it like to care for a person with dementia? For most people, it can be hard to imagine the daily struggle, the exhaustion, the emotional pain. And in truth, recent portrayals of Alzheimer’s in books, newsprint, and advocacy pleas have shied away from showing the progression of the disease as it truly is; some give the impression that the worst of Alzheimer’s is a patient sitting in a wheelchair or lying in bed with a vacant stare. It is not-and Meryl Comer’s upcoming book makes this utterly clear. In Slow Dancing With a Stranger (HarperCollins Publishers, 2014), she offers a glimpse behind closed doors at the raw, difficult reality of day-to-day life with an Alzheimer’s patient. The book will hit stores September 2, but is available online for pre-order.
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