Sarah Spector
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America
Genres: Memoir
Sarah Spector is a Certified Public Accountant, independent business consultant, and author of Next Best Thing: A Memoir of What Remains When Family Fails. A survivor of childhood trauma living with C-PTSD, she became an unexpected caregiver and eldercare advocate in 2018. She wrote her memoir to honor her loved ones and offer fellow survivors hope that they, too, are deserving of love. Next Best Thing is her first book.
Sarah Spector's books
Genres: Memoir
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+
Four words changed Sarah Spector's life. I will get him. She typed them into her phone in September 2018, while her cousin Abby lay dying in a Los Angeles hospital and someone had to decide what happened to Abby's step-father. His name was Peter. Everyone called him Schatzi, German for treasure, the name his late wife gave him. He had Parkinson's, a heavy accent, a habit of mumbling, and no one left. Sarah was not his daughter. She was not his next of kin. She was a CPA with a full life and a family she had spent more than a decade keeping at a distance. She was, as he put it, the next best thing. What followed was four years inside a system that was not built for a man like Schatzi. Nursing homes that lost track of him. A conservatorship that moved at its own pace while he...