Breakfast at The Good Hope Home blends prose and poetry to describe the changes a young adult male faces after his father with Alzheimer’s disease is placed under a nursing home’s care. As the disease progresses, he loses the father he has known, getting discouraged when his father becomes unresponsive. With staff encouragement, he continues to visit and tried to find meaning, desperately hoping his words reach something deep inside of his father, who is staring up at the ceiling.

With his father in the nursing home, the life he has known at home disintegrates....