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Loading... The Geography of Memory: A Pilgrimage Through Alzheimer'sby Jeanne Murray Walker
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Very well written. Easy to understand but heart breaking as alzheimer's truely is! Worth reading to help if you are faced with this or know someone that is... ( ) no reviews | add a review
Award-winning poet Jeanne Murray Walker tells an extraordinarily wise, witty, and quietly wrenching tale of her mother's long passage into dementia. This powerful story explores parental love, profound grief, and the unexpected consolation of memory. While Walker does not flinch from the horrors of "the ugly twins, aging and death," her eye for the apt image provides a window into unexpected joy and humor even during the darkest days. This is a multi-layered narrative of generations, faith, and friendship. As Walker leans in to the task of caring for her mother, their relationship unexpectedly deepens and becomes life-giving. Her mother's memory, which more and more dwells in the distant past, illuminates Walker's own childhood. She rediscovers and begins to understand her own past, as well as to enter more fully into her mother's final years. THE GEOGRAPHY OF MEMORY is not only a personal journey made public in the most engaging, funny, and revealing way possible, here is a story of redemption for anyone who is caring for or expecting to care for ill and aging parents-and for all the rest of us as well. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)616.831Technology Medicine and health Diseases Diseases of nervous system and mental disorders Other organic diseases of central nervous system AlzheimerLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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