For five years, Katrin Seyfert accompanied her husband through his Alzheimer's disease. He was in his early fifties when he received the diagnosis; he was a doctor and the father of five children. She organized the family's daily life, the finances, the care services. Finally, the funeral. With unflinching honesty and brutal candor, she recounts what it's like when your partner gradually loses his voice and, with it, his identity. How she struggles with the role assigned to her, first as a caring wife, then as a widow. And how she finds her own way to cope with the void her husband left behind. Life dealt her a blow, and with her writing, she fights back: against conventions, against taboos, against self-denial. New product