The Wide Circumference Of Love

"Let the title of this beautiful novel entice you. Set in a Washington, D.C., readers don’t often see, The Wide Circumference of Love is a generous rendering of a black family’s efforts to adapt and cope with its architect patriarch’s descent into Alzheimer’s disease. Gregory Tate’s progressive condition provides an opportunity for family members to revisit parts of their own, painful past. Meanwhile, Diane Tate, a devoted and supremely pragmatic wife and mother, transforms the loss of her husband and their cherished life together into a journey of optimism and love."