They left us everything : a memoir
(Large Print)
Author
Published
Waterville : Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs, 2016.
Format
Large Print
Status
Port Angeles - Large Print Nonfiction
LP 306.874 JOHNSON
1 available
LP 306.874 JOHNSON
1 available
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
---|---|---|
Port Angeles - Large Print Nonfiction | LP 306.874 JOHNSON | Available |
Description
Loading Description...
Also in this Series
Checking series information...
Subjects
LC Subjects
Adult children of aging parents -- Family relationships -- Canada.
Aging parents -- Care -- Canada.
Caregivers -- Canada -- Biography.
Families -- Psychological aspects.
House furnishings -- Psychological aspects.
House selling -- Psychological aspects.
Johnson, Plum -- Family.
Johnson, Plum -- Homes and haunts -- Ontario -- Oakville.
Large type books
Parent and adult child.
Personal belongings -- Psychological aspects.
Aging parents -- Care -- Canada.
Caregivers -- Canada -- Biography.
Families -- Psychological aspects.
House furnishings -- Psychological aspects.
House selling -- Psychological aspects.
Johnson, Plum -- Family.
Johnson, Plum -- Homes and haunts -- Ontario -- Oakville.
Large type books
Parent and adult child.
Personal belongings -- Psychological aspects.
More Details
Published
Waterville : Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs, 2016.
Physical Desc
393 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Street Date
1610.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Originally published: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, 2014.
Description
After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents -- first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother -- author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers have finally fallen to their middle-aged knees with conflicted feelings of grief and relief. Now they must empty and sell the beloved family home, twenty-three rooms bulging with history, antiques, and oxygen tanks. Plum thought: How tough will that be? I know how to buy garbage bags. But the task turns out to be much harder and more rewarding than she ever imagined. Items from childhood trigger difficult memories of her eccentric family growing up in the 1950s and '60s, but unearthing new facts about her parents helps her reconcile those relationships, with a more accepting perspective about who they were and what they valued. They Left Us Everything is a funny, touching memoir about the importance of preserving family history to make sense of the past, and nurturing family bonds to safeguard the future.