Looking for a book

July 6, 2010 3:58 PM

Looking for a book with "joy" in the title and "joy" in the author's name. Book is about a woman with alzhemier's or dementia who talks to her dead husband. I work at a library and am trying to find this book for a patron but all my searching has turned up nothing. Anyone here know of this book? My patron says she heard about it on tv but doesn't remember which show.
posted by MarioM to Grab Bag (6 answers total)

I did a search on Amazon.com for books with Joy in the title and in the author's name. 304 results came up. Maybe you know more about this and might be able to narrow it down from here: Amazon.com: joy - joy / English: Books
posted by wondermouse at 5:17 PM on July 6, 2010

Could she have meant Jan instead of Joy? See "Jan's Story," which was mentioned on TV last week?
posted by mittens at 5:22 PM on July 6, 2010

Mittens I don't think it's Jan's Story -- the book MarioM is looking for features a woman with Alzheimer's talking to her DEAD husband, and "Jan's Story" was written BY the husband, who is very much alive.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 5:48 PM on July 6, 2010

If you, as a librarian, can't find it, your patron probably has one of her facts wrong. A possibility, not written by a Joy, but by a Jolene: Creating Moments of Joy for the Person with Alzheimer's or Dementia, by Jolene Brackey.

If not, do you know whether this book is fiction or non?
posted by iconomy at 8:27 PM on July 6, 2010

Maybe Return to Joy: A family's initiation into the mysteries of dementia?
posted by lriG rorriM at 10:52 PM on July 6, 2010

Response by poster: Thanks for the suggestions. It isn't Return to Joy. The patron did not know if it was fiction or memoir. My thought, as iconomy indicated, was that the patron had some of her information wrong. Just thought I'd ask the green, which has been helpful with similar questions in the past.
posted by MarioM at 11:33 AM on July 7, 2010