The Caregiver
A MEMOIR BY ANNE MCCARTHY STRAUSS
The Caregiver is Anne McCarthy Strauss’s memoir about finding love at midlife with a fellow commuter and marrying him, only to spend the next two decades caring for him through lung cancer, brain metastasis, strokes, addiction, financial instability, and family estrangement. When his adult daughter accuses him of sexually abusing her as a child, the narrator is forced to live inside an impossible question: how do you remain loyal to the man you have loved and cared for when you cannot know whether he is innocent? At once a story of marriage, caregiving, alcoholism, and moral uncertainty, the memoir examines the emotional cost of staying in an extraordinarily difficult situation.
How do you remain loyal to the man you have
loved and cared for when you cannot know
whether he is innocent?
Like many Baby Boomers, Anne found herself the caregiver to her spouse during times of extreme illness. Unfortunately, the marriage had broken down, making The Caregiver a memoir about a midlife marriage deflated by sickness, dishonesty, and time.
Anne is currently shopping The Caregiver due to the recent retirement of her agent April Eberhardt (April Eberhardt Literary). Anne is seeking new representation for her memoir. Her previous novels are also available for republication as she was granted all rights when her publisher Booktrope closed its doors in 2016.
She is at work on a third novel.
