Living End : A Memoir of Forgetting and Forgiving

English

ISBN: 0312621248

EAN: 9780312621247

Category: Health & Fitness / Diseases / Alzheimer'S & Dementia/Family & Relationships / Family Relationships/Family & Relationships / Parenting / Motherhood/

Publisher: St. Martins Press

Release Date: 01/17/2012

Synopsis: The Living Endis a tribute to an unforgettable woman, and a testimony to the way a disease can awaken an urgent desire for love and forgiveness. Told with sparkling wit and warmth, The Living Endwill resonate with families coping with Alzheimers, and any reader looking for hope and inspiration. Robert Leleuxs grandmother JoAnn was a steel magnolia, an elegant and devastatingly witty woman: quick-tongued, generous in her affections, but sometimes oddly indifferent to the emotions of those who most needed her. When JoAnn began exhibiting signs of Alzheimers, shed been estranged from her daughter, Roberts mother Jessica, for decades. As her disease progressed, JoAnn lost most of her memories, but she also forgot her old wounds and anger. She becamea happy, gentler person who was finally able to reach out to her daughter in what became a strangely life-affirming experience, an unexpected blessing that gave a divided family a second chance.

Living End : A Memoir of Forgetting and Forgiving

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.67 inches

Width: 5.17 inches

Length: 7.41 inches

Weight: 7.23 oz

Pages: 160