Roses in December: A Story of Love and Alzheimer's [Crankshaft] #[nn]

A tender and quietly powerful work from Tom Batiuk and Chuck Ayers, Roses in December carries its emotional weight right on the cover — a bouquet of red roses lying snow-dusted in soft winter white, elegant and bittersweet against a cool grey-blue sky. The subtitle, "a story of love and Alzheimer's," signals that this Crankshaft-rooted graphic work approaches its subject with care and sincerity rather than sensationalism. Published in 2015 by Kent State University Press with a foreword by Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH — co-author of The 36-Hour Day — this is a thoughtful, human story that feels as much like a labor of love as a comic.