“Alfredo Botello paints his characters with a deft and sensitive touch, one that provides subtle insights into the anguishes and disappointments of growing older. Spin Cycle explores the challenges of caring—for parents with dementia, for those around us, and ultimately for ourselves. His characters resonate with humanity in all its flaws and imperfections, but with all its dignity and resolve too. This is a special book, in places as quiet as a whisper but as bold as the human heart.”