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My Disappearing Mother by Suzanne Finnamore is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is My Disappearing Mother about?

To come to terms with her mother's dementia, writer Suzanne Finnamore's groundbreaking new memoir conceptualizes dementia as an actual, albeit rather magical, place, "like the Acropolis or Yonkers...a place where beloved and ancient queens and kings retire, where linear time doesn't exist, and the rules of society are laid aside.... Whenever I go to my parents' double-wide in Hayward, California, I am really traveling to Dementia.""I love @sfinnamore's new book, "My Disappearing Mother." —@Annelamott on XMy Disappearing Mother: A Memoir of Magic and Loss is far more than a memoir on the devastation that comes with dementia, a cognitive impairment that affects 55 million people worldwide. Finnamore beautifully chronicles her mother's rich and varied life journey, from her birth in Puerto Rico during the height of the Depression to ferrying to the United States, in hopes of a better life. On U.S. soil, her mother, Bunny, started working as a...

Author

Suzanne Finnamore

Publisher

Post Hill Press

Published

2023

Language

EN