All Gone: A Memoir of My Mother's Dementia. With Refreshments
By Alex Witchel.
Description
A daughter’s longing love letter to a mother who has slipped beyond reach.Just past seventy, Alex Witchel’s smart, adoring, ultracapable mother began to exhibit undeniable signs of dementia. Her smart, adoring, ultracapable daughter reacted as she’d been raised: If something was broken, they would fix it. But as medical reality undid that hope, and her mother continued the torturous process of disappearing in plain sight, Witchel retreated to the kitchen, trying to reclaim her mother at the stove by cooking the comforting foods of her&nbs...
ISBN(s)
159448791X, 9781594487910
