Bigger Pete: Conversations Between Life and Afterlife

Alzheimer's Disease causes Pete to lose the ability to speak and understand others.

So how is his sister talking to him?

When Pete was asleep, Elizabeth was in hypnotic trance, communicating through a psychic practice known as automatic writing. Bigger Pete is Elizabeth Bodien's parapsychological memoir about communicating with her brother over the last eight years of his life-and into the afterlife.

Families and friends of people with Down syndrome will relish the loving communication between...