Don't leave yet
how my mother's Alzheimer's opened my heart
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Author
Publication
2015 - She Writes Press, Berkeley, CA, California
Language
English
Word Count
46,250 words, Guess
Page Count
185 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivedontleaveyethowm0000hans
- ISBN-101631529528
- ISBN-139781631529528
- Library of Congress Control Number2014947116
- OCLC Control Number908163939
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781631529528
- Open LibraryOL28755378M
Classifications
- DDC616.831/092
- LCCCT
Description
As a young girl in the Midwest, Constance Hanstedt was consumed by fear -- of her parents, especially her disapproving mother, Virginia; of social situations; and of people in general. Even as an adult she remained guarded around her mother, avoiding conflict at all costs. Still, when Virginia developed Alzheimer's, Hanstedt did what the perfect daughter she'd always struggled to be would do: she returned to the Midwestern town where she was raised to help care for a mother who could no longer care for herself. In Don't Leave Yet, Hanstedt recounts her journey toward facing her fears and rising above the past; her mother's unrelenting bitterness regarding life, even as she loses memories of it; and her unexpected discovery of an emotion that reaches beyond familial duty: compassion.
Subjects
People
Other Editions
- Don't leave yet: how my mother's Alzheimer's opened my heart
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