Bibliograph

The long hello, memory, my mother, and me, Cathie Borrie

Type

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The long hello, memory, my mother, and me, Cathie Borrie

Language

eng

resource.biographical

collective biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The long hello

Oclc number

914219027

Responsibility statement

Cathie Borrie

Sub title

memory, my mother, and me

Summary

"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 within--and 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"--, Provided by publisher

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