Synopses & Reviews
Sylvie used to love spending time with her mom, but lately her mother has been acting strangely, in ways that Sylvie can't understand. Why are there moments when she doesn't seem to know that Sylvie is her daughter? Sylvie needs someone to talk to, but worries she could make matters worse for her mother. Then her mom disappears, and Sylvie realizes that she can't protect her mother any longer. Daughter is a gripping, emotional story about a teenager who comes to terms with the fact that her mother has Alzheimer disease -- and that she will not get better.
Synopsis
Sylvie comes home to find her mother with one foot poised over the ninth-floor railing. Suddenly the phone rings and her mom leaps gracefully back onto the balcony and says she was just admiring the view. How can she be totally out of control one minute, and then her usual calm self the next? Sylvie needs someone to talk to, but worries she could make matters worse for her mother.