In 2019, podcast executive Jonathan Hirsch was suddenly thrust into what’s known as the “sandwich generation” – that group of adults simultaneously caring for their children and their parents. And in this compelling new memoir, we learn that in caring for his father, Hirsch not only had the usual set of responsibilities associated with an aging person who is struggling with dementia – he also was forced to confront, for the first time in 20 years, his family’s history and his father’s responsibility for entrenching them with a spiritual cult.

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