A powerful, ground-shifting account of caring for a parent with Alzheimer’s about which Maya Angelou exclaimed, “Joy!” Since Cathie Borrie delivered her keynote performance at the World Alzheimer’s Day event sponsored by the Community and Access Programs of the Museum of Modern Art, her self-published manuscript has won rapturous praise from noted writers and Alzheimer’s experts alike, from Maya Angelou, Lisa Genova, and Molly Peacock to Dr. Bill Thomas, Jed A. Levine of the Alzheimer’s Association, NYC, and Meryl Comer of the Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer’s Initiative. Now it is available to the general public for the first time in a trade edition. The Long Hello distills the seven years the author spent caring for her mother into a page-turning memoir that offers insight into the “altering world of the dementia mind.” During that time, Borrie recorded brief conversations she had with her mother that revealed the transformations withinand sometimes yielded an almost Zenlike poetry. She includes selections from them in chapters about her experience that are as evocative as diary entries. Her mother was the emotional pillar and sometime breadwinner in a home touched by a birth father’s alcoholism, a brother’s early death, divorce, and a stepfather’s remoteness. In Borrie’s spare prose, her mother’s story becomes a family’s story as well a deeply loving portrait that embraces life.
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The Long Hello: Memory, My Mother, and Me
By: Cathie Borrie
ISBN-10: 1628726644
ISBN-13 : 978-1628726640
Publisher : Arcade; First Printing First Edition (April 19, 2016)
Language : English
Hardcover: 236 pages
Reading Age : None
Dimensions : 5.25 x 1.1 x 7.75 inches
Item Weight : 12.5 ounces
$19.99 $15.99
SKU9781628726640
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