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They Left Us Everything : a Memoir by Johnson, Plum is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 experience conflicted feelings of grief and relief when their mother, the surviving parent, dies. Now they must empty and sell the beloved family home, which hasn't been de-cluttered in more than half a century. Twenty-three rooms bulge with history, antiques, and oxygen tanks. Plum remembers her loving but difficult parents who could not have been more different: the British father, a handsome, disciplined patriarch who nonetheless could not control his opinionated, extroverted Southern-belle wife who loved tennis and gin gimlets. The task consumes her, becoming more rewarding than she ever imagined. Items from childhood trigger memories of her eccentric family growing up in a small town on the shores of Lake Ontario in the 1950s and 60s. But unearthing new facts about...

Who reads They Left Us Everything : a Memoir?

Author

Johnson, Plum

Publisher

Penguin Group (Canada)

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780143189053

Category

self-help

Subjects

Gender Studies, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.83 / 5 (1,855 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14