Joyce Farmer's memoir chronicles the decline of the author's parents health, their relationship with one another and their daughter, and how they cope with the day-to-day emotional fragility of the most taxing time of their lives.
Set in Southern Los Angeles (which makes for a terrifying sequence as the elderly parents, blind Rachel and ailing Lars, are trapped in their home without power during the 1992 Rodney King riots), backgrounds and props are lovingly detailed.
