The Alzhammer: Or Keep Your Friends Close and ... Forget the Other Thing

Show Guest: Joe Joe Di Prisco

Joe Joe Di Prisco is the acclaimed author of Subway to California, All for Now, and Sun City. His newest, ALZHAMMER is a comic and tragic look into the world of dementia. It's the story of a once-powerful mob boss, Mikey, who watched his father disappear from the disease and who's now, himself seriously slipping.

Joe’s own father, who was also connected to the mob and he was his caregiver at the end of his life. So many of us care for, or will soon be caring for, family members plagued by this treacherous illness. What can we do? How can we live and understand this awful condition? Join us in an interview that does exactly that through a fictional story that is real as it gets!