A 2018 NAACP Image Award nominee and an NPR Best Book of 2017, a moving African-American family drama of love, devotion, and Alzheimer’s disease. Diane Tate never expected to slowly lose her talented husband to the debilitating effects of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. As a respected family court judge, she’s spent her life making tough calls, but when her sixty-eight-year-old husband’s health … husband’s health worsens and Diane is forced to move him into an assisted living facility, it seems her world is spinning out of control.
As Gregory’s memory wavers and fades, Diane and her children must reexamine their connection to the man he once was—and learn to love the man he has become. For Diane’ daughter Lauren, it means honoring her father by following in his footsteps as a successful architect. For her son Sean, it means finding a way to repair the strained relationship with his father before it’s too late. Supporting her children in a changing landscape, Diane remains resolute in her goal to keep her family together—until her husband finds love with another resident of the facility. Suddenly faced with an uncertain future, Diane must choose a new path—and discover her own capacity for love.
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This was a good story that really showed the struggles of a family dealing with Alzheimer’s. It was heart wrenching at times.
This story gives an Insite to Alzheimer’s . Of losing your loved one while you still have them. Very touching book.
The Wide Circumference of Love reminds us how devastating Alzheimer’s disease is for the person who can no longer remember as well as those who watch someone they love forget them. Golden, brings us into the home of Diane and Gregory Tate as they slowly deal with this devastating disease. Chapters divided by years introduce us to Diane and her personal struggles before and after she meets and marries Gregory who is later diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. Gregory, an architect is introduced by the sharing of his memories as he slowly forgets them and through his family and friends. The interactions of Diane, their adult children and others trying to cope with Gregory brings you right into the story as if you are there with them. This fictional story of the sadness of a disease with no cure and the loss of the person’s memory is both candid and well done.