Susan Cushman Explores Interracial Relationships and Dementia in New Novel

My latest novel John and Mary Margaret—released in June 2021—is actually my third book that deals with Alzheimer’s disease. My memoir, Tangles and Plaques: A Mother and Daughter Face Alzheimer’s, was published in 2017 and has already been featured here at AlzAuthors.com. And one of the stories in my short story collection, Friends of the Library, also deals with Alzheimer’s. When I decided to expand that story, “John and Mary Margaret,” into a novel, I also introduced Lewy Body Dementia into the story, as a way to spread awareness about this devastating type of progressive dementia.