Patti Davis

Profusely illustrated text discusses life in the United States during World War II.

Wat is de mysterieuze aantrekkingskracht van een man die eigenlijk te ver gaat. Sara en Belinda weten het niet. Oorspr. titel en uitg. : Bondage , 1994. Een Amerikaanse vrouw van 35 jaar raakt in de ban van een sadomasochistische man, die haar verleidt tot een relatie waaraan ze bijna ten onder gaat.

Though on the outside Carla Lawton's domineering mother and benign but passive father looked like parents in a perfect family, she knew otherwise. And what she knew, she could not allow to be repeated in the next generation. So at the age of twenty-four, Carla had herself sterilized.

"Isabelle Berendon dove into blue water to save her son. She was too late. Again and again in her dreams she dives in, hoping this time it will be different. He will breathe and live. But again and again he dies. In the empty days following his death, abandoned by her husband, drowning in her grief, she falls in love with the one person who keeps reaching out to save her -- her sister-in-law."--Page 4 of cover.

A young, mixed-race friendship is tested when a racially fueled incident rocks their world. Broken families struggle to heal among the rubble of fear and loss when an earthquake strikes and separates them further. Secrets are excavated, and family and friendships are redefined in the journey to reunite.

"With the searching, exquisite prose of a loving daughter, Patti Davis provides a life raft for the caregivers of Alzheimer's patients. "For the decade of my father's illness, I felt as if I was floating in the deep end, tossed by waves, carried by currents, but not drowning. "In a singular account of battling Alzheimer's, Patti Davis eloquently weaves personal anecdotes with practical advice tailored specifically for the overlooked caregiver. After losing her father, Ronald Reagan, Davis founded a support group for family members and friends of Alzheimer's patients; drawing on those years, Davis reveals the surprising struggles and gifts of this cruel disease. From the challenges of navigating disorientation to the moments when guilt and resentments creep in, readers are guided gently through slow-burning grief. Along the way, Davis shares how her own fractured family came together, and how her father revealed his true self-always kind, even when he couldn't recognize his own daughter. The result is an achingly beautiful work on the fragile human condition from a profoundly wise and empathetic writer"--

The daughter of Ronald Reagan describes losing her father to the ravages of Alzheimer's, linking memories of her life to a study of Reagan the man, the actor, and the politician, and the toll of the disease on her father and his family.