The Geography of Memory: A Pilgrimage Through Alzheimer's - Hardcover

Walker, Jeanne Murray

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1455544981 ISBN 13: 9781455544981

Verlag: Center Street, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Jeanne Murray Walker, poet, playwright, and teacher, is the author of seven books of poetry and is a Professor of English at The University of Delaware, where she heads the Creative Writing Concentration. She lives with her husband outside Philadelphia. They are the parents of two children and grandparents of three grandchildren.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Center Street
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1455544981
• ISBN 13: 9781455544981
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 386
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