Because of my own journey which began last spring in assuming responsibility for my mother who was diagnosed with numerous cardiac issues and faced two major cardiac procedures (she is currently doing well for which I am grateful), it was with a greater interest that I requested via Net Galley to review author Susan Ellen Toth’s forthcoming book No Saints Around Here: A Caregiver Days. To be published in April by the University of Minnesota Press, No Saints Around Here is Toth’s first person account of the final eighteen months of her care of, and life with, her husband James as he succumbed to Parkinson’s disease along with dementia.

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