Waverly Free Library would like to welcome author and caregiver Rundy Purdy. Rundy will be speaking at the Waverly Free Library on Thursday, Aug. 27 at 6:30 p.m. He will share his experience with Alzheimer’s caregiving and discuss his memoir, The Sea is Wide.
When Rundy Purdy was 24 he began accompanying his grandfather on a journey through confused days, long nights, and inevitable loss. He tells an adventure of bedtime stories, bathroom struggles, and a shared love that stretches across the wide sea of Alzheimer’s.
Rundy, the author of two novels, spent the last eight years providing daily elder care to two of his grandparents. His three years of Alzheimer’s caregiving in that time made a deep impact on him, and created the desire to help others through the difficult, but rewarding, experience of caregiving.
With compassion, hope, and a strong dose of gritty realism, The Sea is Wide: A Memoir of Caregiving brings the light of hope to voyage of a grandfather into Alzheimer’s, and the story of grandson who went with him.
While caregiving, Rundy wrote a blog chronicling his experience, which formed the basis for his book. During that time his writing was profiled on The New York Times blog “The New Old Age,” where his account of caregiving and Alzheimer’s was described as “touching as ‘Tuesdays With Morrie,’ as tender as John Bayley’s memoir of his wife, Iris Murdoch, and in many ways truer and more tough-minded than either.”
After reading the book, Louise O’Keefe, PhD, CRNP said, “It is a must-read for those taking care of loved ones suffering from Alzheimer’s and for those in the medical and nursing profession. I will definitely recommend this book to my patients and nursing students.”
If you would like to hear Rundy share his experience with Alzheimer’s caregiving and discover the things he learned about Alzheimer’s, love, and caregiving join them in the Library’s community room. All are welcome.
You will not want to miss this evening of education and encouragement. Books will be available for purchase and author signing.
For more information, contact the Library at (607) 565-9341 or visit them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/waverlyfreelibrary14892.
