Many thanks to NetGalley, Gallery Books, and Rachel Gibson for the opportunity to read this poignant story about mothers, daughters, family, loss - 4 stars!
Lou Ann, aka Lulu the Love Guru, has built an empire teaching women how to navigate love. She's single, wealthy and loving her Seattle life. However, her mother, Patricia, has Alzheimer's and the latest home where she lives just required her to leave the facility. Lou Ann takes her home and hires a nurse, Lindsey, but Patricia is soon begging Lou Ann to take her back to her family home in Louisiana. Deciding to put her mom before her business, Lou Ann does just that with Lindsey in tow.
This book obviously has a difficult subject matter - caring of aging parents and losing them to dementia - but there is a lot of wonderful, light-hearted humor to keep it from being sad. It's also a wonderful tribute to figuring out what's important as Lou Ann takes a somewhat difficult and contentious relationship with her mom and turns her mom's last days to making memories. Good life lessons for us all. Loved the humorous names of the chapters as well.
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