The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey (Hardcover) by Walter Mosley

from suzemo

I really thought this book was beautifully written.Ptolemy Grey is a 91 year old black man living in Los Angeles and suffering with dementia. His primary caretaker has been killed in a drive by, and other relatives have popped up to get him to the funeral. There he meets a ward of his great/grand...

from yvonne.sevignykaiser

Read this one for my Tomball library fiction group. This is a stand alone and not part of Mosley's Easy Rawlins series of mystery books. Our group had a great discussion over the book: from Alzheimer's, medicine to help with the effects to helping to restore memory even if it for a brief time, ho...

from Jenners26

Brief Description: Ptolemy Grey is a 91-year-old man living in a dirty apartment in Los Angeles. He's been steadily falling into dementia and forgetfulness, and his world falls to pieces when one of his few links to the present, his great-nephew Reggie, is murdered and unable to help him with his...

from bohemiangirl35

The only thing I knew about this book when I checked it out was that it was not an Easy Rawlins novel. When I started it and figured out that the main character had dementia, I didn't think I would like or finish the story. That disease hits too close to home as both of my grandparents who passed...

from saltypepper

I got this book as part of the Early Reviewers Program. I asked for it because I am a huge fan of Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins series, and to a lesser extent, his Fearless Jones and Socrates Fortlow books. I think that's why it took me so long to get to this book. I was afraid that, as with some ...