"A deeply resonant and important novel that everyone should read.
Golden’s writing is as poetic as it is heartbreaking."- Washington Independent Review of Books In doing so, she makes each character's past an integral part of their present, as well as their impetus to move forward into a new and unexpected future." - Melissa Firman, Shelf Awareness, starred review Indeed, any one of these problems and stories could be the plot of a separate novel, but Golden connects them seamlessly and compassionately, treating each with the prismatic complexity that defines family crises. "Golden takes a frank and authentic approach to dementia's relentless and all-encompassing nature-losing one's dignity, forgetting loved ones' names, bewildering personality changes, disappearing friends-while also calling attention to the increased prevalence of Alzheimer's in the African American community. Golden's redemptive novel is a tale of family survival in which love softens the brutal edges of an insidious disease.” - Kirkus reviews Praise for The Wide Circumference of Love: "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Suddenly faced with an uncertain future, Diane must choose a new path-and discover her own capacity for love. 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. For her son Sean, it means finding a way to repair the strained relationship with his father before it’s too late. For Diane’ daughter Lauren, it means honoring her father by following in his footsteps as a successful architect. 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.Īs 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.
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.ĭiane Tate never expected to slowly lose her talented husband to the debilitating effects of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
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