slow loss: a memoir of marriage undone by disease

What happens when the person you love slowly unravels from a chronic, incurable disease? What happens to you?

With raw honesty and piercing insight, Slow Loss chronicles a woman’s emotional journey as her husband succumbs to Parkinson’s and dementia, and she evolves from wife to caregiver to widow.

Heartbreaking and laced with dark humor, Kelly’s poignant memoir unveils the realities of caregiving, from being crushed by anger and fear to making hard decisions with surprising outcomes. It is brave, fresh, inspirational, and encouraging without toxic positivity or sappiness.

Slow Loss speaks to anyone facing the gradual loss of a loved one, offering hard-earned wisdom, a beacon of hope, and so much love.

Let Lois Kelly’s unflinching account be your lifeline.