The long hello : memory, my mother, and me
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Arcade Publishing, 2016.
Format
Book
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Status
Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult)
362.1968 BORRIE
1 available
362.1968 BORRIE
1 available
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult) | 362.1968 BORRIE | Available |
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Care -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Biographies.
Borrie, Cathie -- Biography.
Borrie, Joan -- Mental health.
Mothers and daughters -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Biography.
Vancouver Island (B.C.) -- Biography
Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Biographies.
Borrie, Cathie -- Biography.
Borrie, Joan -- Mental health.
Mothers and daughters -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Biography.
Vancouver Island (B.C.) -- Biography
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Published
New York : Arcade Publishing, 2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Previously published: Vancouver : Nightwing Press, ©2010.
Description
"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.