Beside the mountain
Subtitle: finding strength and courage through my father's early onset Alzheimer's disease
By: Stefania Silvestri
Publisher: The Author.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [California]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780985727208
Subjects: Childhood and youth; Alzheimer's disease; Biography; Patients; Anecdotes; Adult children; Family relationships
Description: Stefania, her mother, and her two sisters travel with her father's ashes back to the cemetery of her parents' home village of Pacentro, Italy. Woven throughout this journey are recollections of the family's life in St. Louis, Missouri, as her father's dementia worsened.
Notes: Stefania Silvestri (1984- ) was born to Italian immigrant parents from the Abruzzo town of Pacentro, Italy. She lived in several states during her childhood, but spent the majority of her life in St. Louis, Missouri. She attended the University of Missouri in Columbia where she received her BA in English and minor in Italian Studies. In 2008, she began her studies at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts where she received her MFA in Creative Writing, Nonfiction. While at Emerson College, she began and eventually completed her original manuscript of "Beside the Mountain." She was granted the Dean's Award for best thesis in 2011 for her completed manuscript. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California where she teaches Academic English.