PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewLadysitting is not just a caregiving memoir; it’s also a dive into Cary’s own history—one in which her family immigrated from Barbados to America, then endured the oppression of the South ... What resonates loudest in Ladysitting, however, is the love that Cary gives back to her grandmother, even as caregiver’s fatigue sets in ... Cary shows the ugly, exhausting side of caregiving, but she also shows how the hardship bespeaks something more powerful: unconditional familial love.
Kate Mulgrew
RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewMulgrew depicts her warm, charismatic mother so vividly that the reader’s heart breaks along with Mulgrew’s when Joan starts slipping away because of her disease ... Though both sections of Mulgrew’s memoir build to painful goodbyes, How to Forget is more than just a sad play-by-play of illness and decline. It’s a beautiful portrait of a daughter’s love for her parents, packed with sharp, amusing recollections, all told with love.
