DYGD in New York Times

Lynn Casteel Harper discusses Dad, You’ve Got Dementia in NYT.

I was thrilled to see that Lynn Casteel Harper discusses my book Dad, You’ve Got Dementia (The Cuba Press) in her NYT article ‘We May Soon Be Telling a Very Different Kind of Story About Dementia’.

Dad You’ve Got Dementia is listed alongside other stories that are ‘beyond the tragedy convention’, including:

Samuel Simon’s play ‘Dementia Man’ (check out the sizzle reel on the website to get a sense of this powerful play)

Rebecca Barry’s essay about her father, ‘Alzheimer’s Can Be a World of Endless Second Chances’ (you need to be a paid subscriber to the NYT to read this in full).

Suzanne Finnamore’s My Disappearing Mother: A Memoir of Magic and Loss in the Country of Dementia.

Sarah Friedland’s film Familiar Touch, starring Kathleen Chalfant.

Casteel Harper is a Baptist minister and chaplain. She is the author of On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia and What it Means to Disappear (Catapult, 2021).