Books and Chit Chat March Read: "Stage Seven," a novel, by Ruth Stevens

Mar 02, 2024 4:26 pm

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Fiction is an excellent genre for gently educating readers about the realities of an Alzheimer's or dementia diagnosis. Through fictitious characters, the condition can provide the primary plot or sub-plot in a story that brings to life its signs, symptoms, and caregiving responsibilities while taking on the stigmas that often accompany it. Many of these novels are based on personal experience and allow the author to examine their journey through another's eyes. AlzAuthors supports a number of novels about Alzheimer's or dementia and this month we read one of them, Stage Seven by Ruth Stevens.

Description: Barbara Gordon is a self-reliant, divorced mom, brilliant at managing her life with lists and spreadsheets. Lately, though, the demands of a teenage daughter, a manipulative sister, and a mother with worsening Alzheimer’s are more than she can handle.

Then Barbara meets Jack, an appealing older man married to a late-stage dementia patient who no longer knows him. Jack and Barbara hold the power to make each other happy…but only if Barbara can break her long cycle of romantic abstinence.

Funny, sad, and heartwarming, Stage Seven is about two people caught between love and duty, and the risks we take when we commit our hearts to family, friends, and lovers alike.

Available at Amazon in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook, or find it at your favorite bookseller or library. (We are an Amazon Associate and may receive a small commission on book sales at no cost to you or the author.)

Please join us for an enlightening discussion with the author. It is not required to have read the book to participate.

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