Far outside the ordinary
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Prissy Elrod
Publisher: Beaufort Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780825307836
Subjects: Hospice care; Personal narratives; Life change events; Housewives; Life Change Events; Soins en phase terminale; Récits personnels; Événements stressants de la vie; Femmes au foyer
Description: If anybody had told Prissy, a conservative Southern housewife, she would one day be driving around town with a stoned, drunk black man named Willie in her backseat while she begged-no, ordered-him into her house for the night, she would have told them they were nuts. But it happened. An emotionally honest account, Far Outside the Ordinary chronicles the period in Prissy's life when, during a routine physical, her fifty-year-old husband is given less than a year to life. Southern black caregivers move into her home and work around the clock to aid her family. Soon, Prissy finds herself a spectator in her own home, observing events far outside the boundaries of her once ordinary life. [pg. 4].