I did not finish this memoir, mostly due to the fact that it was not what I expected. Gray Hill's elderly mother died in the early days of Covid, and while any loss is a great loss, her mother was many, many years into living with dementia and extremely elderly (over 90 if I recall correctly). Gray Hill states one of her purposes is exposing the many ways in which our healthcare system is broken and ill equipped to deal with elderly patients. This was a topic I was already personally and professionally familiar with, and Gray Hill didn't want to explore solutions. Perhaps if she had researched suggestions from health care workers (of which her daughter is one), or researched the varying ways in which other countries fail and succeed in this area, I might have been more inclined to keep reading. Furthermore, the book starts out as a dry biography of her mother, rather than a memoir recalling their lives. I think this could have made an interesting magazine article but did not warrant an entire book from what I could tell.