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No Saints Around Here: A Caregiver's Days, book discussion with Susan Allen Toth

I love this book. I really hope word will get out that Susan Allen Toth will be at the store on Sunday, May 4th. No Saints Around Here: A Caregiver's Days is her memoir about caring for her ailing husband. Thankfully, I can't relate but I loved her writing and know that many people in this day and age are in the tough position of being caregiver's for their loved ones.

From The U of MN Press:
A moment-by-moment memoir of the difficulty and dedication of caregiving




As her husband James’s
Parkinson’s disease with eventual dementia began to progress, writer
Susan Allen Toth decides she intensely wants to keep her husband at home
until the end. Wrenching, occasionally peevish, at times darkly funny,
and always deeply felt, Toth’s intimate, unsparing memoir reflects the
realities of seeing a loved one out of life.






While some readers may find the title of Susan Allen Toth’s No Saints around Here unintentionally
ironic, it came to seem no more than apt to me. Halfway through the
book, I was wondering how many saints could have matched her devotion in
the care she gave to her husband or achieved the honesty, humor, and
vividness of her moving account.

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