Unforgettable
Subtitle: a son, a mother, and the lessons of a lifetime
By: Scott Simon
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781250061133
Subjects: Mothers and sons; Family; Journalists; Biography
Description: "When NPR's Scott Simon began tweeting from his mother's hospital room in July 2013, he didn't know that his missives would soon spread well beyond his 1.2 million Twitter followers. Squeezing the magnitude of his final days with her into 140-character updates, Simon's ... meditations spread virally. Over the course of a few days, Simon chronicled his mother's death and reminisced about her life, revealing her humor and strength, and celebrating familial love ... Spending their last days together in a hospital ICU, mother and son reflect on their lifetime's worth of memories, recounting stories laced with humor and exemplifying resilience"--