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All Gone: A Memoir of My Mother's Dementia. With Refreshments Paperback - 2013
by Witchel, Alex
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- Title All Gone: A Memoir of My Mother's Dementia. With Refreshments
- Author Witchel, Alex
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition UsedVeryGood
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books
- Date 2013-10-01
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52YZZZ02DHHA_ns
- ISBN 9781594631856 / 1594631859
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.7 in (20.57 x 13.72 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Topical: Family
- Topical: Health & Fitness
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
A daughter’s longing love letter to a mother who has slipped beyond reach
Just past seventy, Alex Witchel’s smart, adoring, ultracapable mother began to exhibit undeniable signs of dementia. Her smart, adoring, ultracapable daughter reacted as she’d been raised: If something was broken, they would fix it. But as medical reality undid that hope, and her mother continued the torturous process of disappearing in plain sight, Witchel retreated to the kitchen, trying to reclaim her mother at the stove by cooking the comforting foods of her childhood: Is there any contract tighter than a family recipe?”
Reproducing the perfect meat loaf was no panacea, but it helped Witchel come to terms with her predicament, the growing phenomenon of ambiguous loss ” loss of a beloved one who lives on. Gradually she developed a deeper appreciation for all the ways the parent she was losing lived on in her, starting with the daily commandment Tell me everything that happened today” that started a future reporter and writer on her way. And she was inspired to turn her experience into this frank, bittersweet, and surprisingly funny account that offers true balm for an increasingly familiar form of heartbreak.
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- New York Times Book Review, 11/24/2013, Page 36