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Spin Cycle: Notes from a Reluctant Caregiver
Paperback
Publisher: Koehler Books
Published: Jan 14 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Best Fiction, Storytrade Awards (winner across all fiction categories)
Finalist, Hawthorne Prize
A must read for anyone who feels lost in the wilderness caring for an older loved one. -Bella Andre, New York Times bestselling author of The Sullivans
An intimate yet epic journey digging into the messy truths and secrets connecting parents and their children. -Barry Hertz, The Globe and Mail
High school math teacher Ezra Pavic is having a hard time. His wife left him, his son barely tolerates him, and now he's being blindsided by something he never saw coming: the emotional spin cycle of parenting a parent. His mother Irene has dementia, and it's exhausting. Caring for her is a constant source of frustration, resentment, and guilt. Lots of guilt.
Overwhelmed by it all, Ezra opens a strip-mall school to help others-and himself-become better caregivers. As he learns to handle the personalities of his nine misfit students, Ezra must also navigate the complex feelings he has toward his mother. It doesn't help that she adores his do-nothing slacker brother.
But Ezra hasn't told his students that he also has an agenda beyond becoming a more compassionate caregiver. And, it turns out, so does one of his students. Ezra confides the entire tale to his childhood friend Danny as he attempts to sort it all out and find room in his heart again for compassion and love.
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