The Long Hello
Subtitle: Memory, My Mother, and Me
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Jan 06, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781476792514
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: Source title: The Long Hello: Memory, My Mother, and Me