Publish Date |
January 06, 2015 |
Category |
Family & Relationships / Babysitting, Day Care & Child Care Health & Fitness |
Price |
$29.99 |
ISBN: 9781476792514
Format: Hardback
Pages: 352
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: January 06, 2015
"Joy!"“Immensely lyrical and moving . . . a powerful display of Cathie Borrie’s talent as a writer.”"A sparse yet deeply affecting, poetic story of love and devotion, The Long Hello is a memoir about caring for a mother with Alzheimer's, a collection of conversations and memories revealing moments of clarity, absurdity, wisdom, and connection that pierce and heal the heart."“Ordinary writers are able to describe the surface of things. Great writers take readers inside the human experience in ways that can, and often do, bring life-changing insights. Cathie Borrie is a great writer and her exploration of life with Alzheimer’s is deep, rich, nuanced,and soulful.”"Groundbreaking...[The Long Hello] creates an ideological sea change in how you view Alzheimer's."“What Cathie Borrie did for her mother was wonderful…What she has done for readers is inspiring.The actions are matched by the luminous prose. This book is memoir at its best.”“Mother-daughter Alice in Wonderland-like exchanges underline this remarkable child-as-parental-caregiver memoir…Constructed in prose fragments that capture the many facets of caring for a dying parent, the book also serves as a meditation on the elusiveness and selectivity of all memory.”“Toward the end of illness, the line between sublime and ridiculous is blurry and extraneous. In The Long Hello, that line is barely seen. Out of Borrie’s personal mayhem emerged compassion, the realest, most onerous thing there is.”