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The Wide Circumference of Love: a Novel

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A 2018 NAACP Image Award nominee and an NPR Best Book of 2017, a moving African-American family drama of love, devotion, and Alzheimer's disease.
Diane Tate never expected to slowly lose her talented husband to the debilitating effects of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. As a respected family court judge, she's spent her life making tough calls, but when her sixty-eight-year-old husband's health worsens and Diane is forced to move him into an assisted living facility, it seems her world is spinning out of control.
As Gregory's memory wavers and fades, Diane and her children must reexamine their connection to the man he once was—and learn to love the man he has become. For Diane' daughter Lauren, it means honoring her father by following in his footsteps as a successful architect. For her son Sean, it means finding a way to repair the strained relationship with his father before it's too late. Supporting her children in a changing landscape, Diane remains resolute in her goal to keep her family together—until her husband finds love with another resident of the facility. Suddenly faced with an uncertain future, Diane must choose a new path—and discover her own capacity for love.
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      January 1, 2017
      When a beloved husband and father slips into the black hole of early-onset dementia, he pulls his family with him into an inescapable identity crisis. After all, who are we if we forget...and who are we if we are forgotten?Diane Tate watches her husband, Gregory, fade as Alzheimer's robs him of his memory, abilities, and eventually even the essence of who he once was. The problem begins when Gregory, an African-American architect who owns a firm in Washington, D.C., with a longtime friend, forgets meetings and gets lost in the city. He fears his symptoms and only visits a doctor when they become too hard to hide. Once the diagnosis is confirmed and gradually made public, Gregory's family, friends, and co-workers support him in their individual ways. Along with Diane, Gregory's grown children, Lauren and Sean, struggle to forge a new relationship with him in a constantly changing dance of love and loss--and at times fear, resentment, anger, and even violence. Eventually events compel Diane to put 68-year-old Gregory in an assisted living home, but she aches when he forges stronger bonds with a resident there than with her. Diane strives to widen the boundaries of her love and understanding. Golden's (After, 2006, etc.) choice of third-person narration allows a sweeping view of the family's dilemma but perhaps one with less intensity than if the story had been all Diane's. Nevertheless, the horror of the disease and the havoc it unleashes is clear. Golden's redemptive novel is a tale of family survival in which love softens the brutal edges of an insidious disease.

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