How Lulu lost her mind : a novel
(Book)

Lou Ann Hunter's mother has always had a passionate nature, but now she has Alzheimer's. When she suddenly needs a full-time caretaker, Lou Ann reluctantly agrees to indulge her mother's wishes. Lou Ann Hunter's mother, Patricia, has always had a passionate nature, which explains why she's been married and divorced five times and spooned enough male patients to be ousted from three elderly care facilities. She also has Alzheimer's, which is why she wants to spend her remaining months or years surrounded by memories at her family's decrepit old plantation in Louisiana with her only daughter. As Lou Ann adjusts to this new and inevitably temporary dynamic, she is forced to confront the fact that her mother's fate is completely out of her hands, and the end may be coming quicker than she even thought possible.