Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter

With profound insight and a healthy dose of levity, "Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter" chronicles the various stages of a mother's Alzheimer's disease and the evolution of a daughter's response to the illness. The desire to cure the incurable - to set right her mother's confusion and forgetfulness, to temper her mother's obsessiveness - gives way to an acceptance which is finally liberating for both daughter and mother. Neither depressing nor medical, "Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter" is way more than a story about Alzheimer's and family caregiving. It is ultimately a life-affirming exploration of family relations, aging and change, the meaning of memory, and love.