How I Find Her

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Summary: Tender, powerful memoir
Review: Why read this book? Because you had a childhood, had a mother, buy maybe you don't have the words to express all the complex feelings--both amazingly sweet and wrenchingly sad--that only a writer this gifted can fully express. The slow loss of a beloved mother to Alzheimer's Disease is a tough subject, and this book does not sentimentalize the pain. It's better than that. It tells the whole truth: the frustration, the fears, the moment you first know that the family you've known and depended upon is under seige by a frightening illness, and also the way your heart can miraculously open wide to love this much, to keep going, to visit in the nursing home and try to sing your favorite song together. I don't know how she gets it all down on paper, but she does. Amazingly beautiful book. My highest recommendation (because I know what she's writing about.)