Both a practical guide and a memoir-in-essays, Grab Happy explores the harrowing, surreal and often infuriating journey of caregiving for aging parents while working, raising young children and living through the end of a marriage.

In addition to its stories of combative siblings and elusive car keys, you'll find hands-on advice gained through decades' worth of hard-fought experience.

 

You'll also discover a strong case for changing the way Americans think about dying.

 

Filled with relatable scenarios featuring oblivious surgeons, gut-wrenching decisions and unenviable role reversals, Grab Happy offers a fresh, honest take on critical topics facing more and more grown-up children around the world, especially more than a year into a pandemic. 

 

Elissa Yancey, MS Ed, is a lifelong storyteller with a background as a successful journalist, community builder and educator. She was a constant caregiver for her mother, Gladys Yancey, during the last 10 years of her life. In Grab Happy, she honors her strong and strong-willed mother as she aims to make the prospect of life in a "sandwich generation" a little less daunting for those facing uncertain futures alongside complicated relationships.