HJBR Jan/Feb 2024

64 JAN / FEB 2024  I  HEALTHCARE JOURNAL OF BATON ROUGE   R E V I EWS B Y T H E BOOKWORM She talks in random syllables, half-jokes, thoughts that come out of her mouth backwards or mixed up. You try, she laughs, you laugh, pretending that you understand but you don’t. Mom has dementia and there’s nothing that’ll fix it, but you can read “The Day After Yesterday” by Joe Wallace and change the conversation. Talk about your awkward encounters. By Joe Wallace c.2023, The MIT Press Sometimes, Mom talks a lot of nonsense.