And he’s part of America, his consciousness is a big part of America, so let’s acknowledge that, too. Trump isn’t the first manifestation of the retrograde. The amount of organizing that’s going on under the radar around the country is just absolutely amazing. The thing that I learned from talking to so many people and writing the book was that there can be grace in these very difficult moments, whatever they are.Įven in dealing with Trump, there’s a lot that people who are more progressive and who want to go in a different direction, there’s a lot that we’re gonna learn. At the same time, the way we respond to it is the way we respond to all crises. It’s really a uniquely ugly and challenging disease. And the way in which it impacts families - it takes down the person with Alzheimer’s, it takes down their children. It’s the most impactful and most expensive. We think of Alzheimer’s in a particular way because it is a devastating disease unlike most other diseases, there’s no prevention, there’s no cure. It could be cancer, it could be the loss of a job, it could be divorce. They only asked how.” I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that there’s a lesson there whose substance extends far beyond Alzheimer’s.Īlzheimer’s is an opportunity to discover who you are, how you are when you face a crisis. Those caretakers I met who experienced grace no longer asked why. You wrote on your blog, “Even when their personality has been radically altered by the disease people with Alzheimer’s are still human and have human hearts and souls that are both a whisper and a scream. Your latest novel, “The Wide Circumference of Love,” explores the turmoil and surprise that comes from having a loved one with Alzheimer’s. So, I consider myself disturbing not so much the peace, but disturbing the silence around this disease. No matter what Trump did, I was gonna stay focused on that. I was gonna use my novels to talk about Alzheimer’s disease and African-Americans and Alzheimer’s.
Sure, but when that happened, I made it clear I decided what I was gonna do, and I had my own agenda that I was gonna stick to. You have said you like to think of yourself as a “literary disturber of the peace.” Does that task feel more immediate to you now, in the shadow of this administration?
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