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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Torrey House Press edition.
Language
English
Description
"Cassandra Soelberg, pregnant at seventeen, was cast out by Mormon patriarchs of her community. Returning to her rural Utah hometown after forty years to care for her senile mother, she meets a young man with an uncanny resemblance to the father of her never-known child. Drawn back into traumatic scenes of young adulthood, she must reconcile with her past in the fiercely beautiful landscapes that shaped her. What Falls Away is a powerful and compassionate...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Restless Books paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Arno Geiger's father was never an easy man to know. Born into a farming family in Austria and conscripted into World War II as a seventeen-year-old "schoolboy soldier", he was later reticent about the past. When he developed Alzheimer's, Arno realized he was not going to ask for help...In this intelligent, moving, and often funny memoir, he recounts his journey to get to know his fathe at last.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Russian
Description
"U Stėna i Dzhoĭ Delėĭni, nekogda izvestnykh tennisistov, chetvero vzroslykh deteĭ, kotorye, nesmotri︠a︡ na vneshni︠u︡i︠u︡ uspeshnostʹ, stradai︠u︡t ot psikhologicheskikh travm rodom iz detstva, vyzvannykh sopernichestvom na tennisnom korte i borʹboĭ za vnimanie roditeleĭ. Revnostʹ k roditeli︠a︡m eshche bolʹshe usilivaetsi︠a︡ posle togo, kak vnezapno poi︠a︡vivshai︠a︡si︠a︡ v dome neznakomai︠a︡...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's most beloved novelists has written a poignant, complex, and hugely resonant memoir about the shift she experienced between being her parents' daughter to their guardian and caregiver. As the daughter takes charge, and the writer takes notes, her mother and father are like two legendary icebergs floating south. They melt into the ocean of partial, painful, inconsistent, and funny stories that a family makes over time....
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Bailando con abuelito es un libro ilustrado diseñado para ser una herramienta de enseñanza que los adultos pueden usar para tener una conversación con un niño sobre la enfermedad de Alzheimer. El libro lleva a los lectores jóvenes en el viaje de aprendizaje de una manera apropiada para su edad, que el abuelo de Nia de siete años tiene Alzheimer y necesitará mudarse a un nuevo hogar. También aprenden que, si bien el abuelo de Nia está...
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