The long hello
Subtitle: memory, my mother, and me
By: Cathie Borrie
Edition: First US edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781628726640
Subjects: Patients; Biography; Family relationships; Mothers and daughters; Alzheimer's disease; Care
Description: "The Long Hello distills the seven years the author spent caring for her mother into a page-turning memoir that offers insight into the "altering world of the dementia mind." During that time, Borrie recorded brief conversations she had with her mother that revealed the transformations within--and sometimes yielded an almost Zenlike poetry. She includes selections from them in chapters about her experience that are as evocative as diary entries. Her mother was the emotional pillar and sometime breadwinner in a home touched by a birth father's alcoholism, a brother's early death, divorce, and a stepfather's remoteness. In Borrie's spare prose, her mother's story becomes a family's story as well a deeply loving portrait that embraces life"--
Notes: Previously published: Vancouver : Nightwing Press, c2010.