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Dorrance.
Dorrance -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Adult children of aging parents -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Dementia -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Aging parents -- Care -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Mothers and daughters -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Polar vortex : a family memoir / Denise Dorrance.
by
Dorrance.
The Experiment, 2024.
Call #:
616
.831092
D716p
Subjects
Dorrance -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Adult children of aging parents -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Dementia -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Aging parents -- Care -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Mothers and daughters -- Comic books, strips, etc.
ISBN:
9781615199051 (pbk.)
Edition:
[Revised ed.].
Description:
245 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"What do you do when your mother can't remember who you are? You catch the first flight from your adopted home of London to your original hometown of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she's hospitalized, injured, and struggling with the swirling disorientation of dementia. You take responsibility for finding her new (and, perhaps, final) home--although insurance is running out and you might have to finally patch up your bitter relationship with your sister. And you try not to think about death, lurking around every corner... or the coming polar vortex, growing closer and closer as snowflakes swirl ever faster outside. With cinematic ill. and moving yet humorous prose, award-winning author and cartoonist Denise Dorrance shares the two most haywire months of her life: the phone call after her mother is discovered lying confused on the living room floor, the mingled shock and familiarity of a harsh Midwestern midwinter, the attempt to settle her homesick mother into a care facility, the limiting and limitless inanities of the US health care system, and the impossible decisions about what comes next. Incorporating vintage postcards, photographs, and letters, Dorrance brilliantly captures the sadness, frustration, and gallows humor of suddenly having to care for an aging parent and facing the moment of transition between life as you've long known it and life as it must become." --Provided by publisher.
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Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc.
Graphic non-fiction.
Comic books, strips, etc.
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5
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