The gate
Subtitle: things my mother told me : a novel
By: by Stan I.S. Law.
Publisher: Inhousepress
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Montréal, QC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780978026707
Description: "An intimate novel of an eighty-year old women spending the last years of her life at the Institute of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The problems she must face are as different as they are unexpected from anything one can imagine in the 'outside' world, not the least of which is her husband's gradual deterioration under the unforgiving progression of Alzheimer's disease. As we follow the inevitable loss of her own faculties, we discover what unexpected compensations nature offers to those whom no one else can help. Surprisingly, the book is spiced with abundant humor ..."--Page [4] cover.