![]() SAM BRIGER, BYLINE: Lucy Knisley, welcome to FRESH AIR.īRIGER: So how much time had you'd been spending with your grandparents before this? Did you have a real sense of what their condition was mentally and physically? Lucy Knisley spoke with FRESH AIR producer Sam Briger. ![]() The cruise was about patience, care, mortality, respect, sympathy and love. As Knisley says, the trip to Europe was about independence, sex, youth and adventure. The first, "An Age Of License," was about Knisley's trip to Europe in her mid-20s and the romance she had while traveling. That trip is the subject of Knisley's new cartoon memoir "Displacement." It's the second travel memoir she's published in the last year. Rather than spending some quality time with her grandparents, she basically spent 10 days keeping them alive. They were suffering from dementia, incontinence, asthma and more. ![]() But her grandparents' health was worse than her visits had revealed. So the cruise seemed like a nice opportunity to spend more time with them, while escaping winter for a few days. Her grandparents live in a different city than Lucy does. ![]() When Lucy Knisley offered to accompany her grandparents on the Caribbean cruise they'd signed up for through their senior living facility, she had no idea what she was getting herself into. ![]()
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