Head Case: My Father Alzheimers & Other Brainstorms

About this book

North Carolina writer and publisher Alexis Orgeras new memoir HEAD CASE: MY FATHER ALZHEIMERS & OTHER BRAINSTORMS is a lyric experiment written in the immediacy of grief during the end stages of her fathers early Alzheimers diagnosis at age 52--a disease that is a national epidemic. The book chronicles the visceral and painful experience of a daughter watching her beloved formerly high functioning father disappear and explores the stories that unfurl daily all around us. After moving from Los Angeles to Florida to be near her parents as they navigated her fathers deteriorating condition Orgera spent the days with her father painting listening to music taking walks reading poems sitting on the porch and later in the courtyard of his memory facility and furiously recording the moments while examining her own memories. To begin to understand the emotional impact of a human unraveling by memory loss Orgera tells the story through a kaleidoscopic lens of mythology and religion visual art migraines ghosts poetry and science. Both a deep lament for a well-loved man and an exploration of what it means to live a good life HEAD CASE invites you to better understand yourself more deeply as well as the human condition. Literary Nonfiction. Womens Studies. Memoir.