Remind Me Who I Am, Again
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (592 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1862072442 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 307 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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. As her mother's condition deteriorates, Grant and her sister come to the painful decision to place her in a nursing home. With nostalgic humor, she looks back on the experiences of her large, extended family of observant Jews who settled in a country where anti-Semitism, while not as virulent as in the Poland they had left, was not unknown. In response to a flood of readers' letters and her own need to examine her extended family history, she expanded that article into this moving account of second-generation Anglo-Jewry, published last year in England. From Publishers Weekly Grant first charted her mother's decline into senile dementia in an article for the Guardian (U.K.). As a child, Grant thought family stories a bore; now she regrets her lack of interest and lost opportunities
In Remind Me Who I Am, Again, Linda Grant tells the story of her mother's gradual but devastating mental deterioration, her diagnosis as a victim of Alzheimer's disease, and her family's struggle to come to terms with the catastrophic impact of the disease. Iimmensely moving, at times darkly comic, and searingly honest, it combines biography and memoir in a unique examination of the profound questions of identity, memory, and autonomy that dementia raises.
Linda Grant's first novel, The Cast Iron Shore, won the David Higham Award in 1996 and was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize She lives in London. She was educated in Liverpool and studied at the University of York and in Canada. She is the author of Sexing the Millennium, and is a columnist with the Guardian. Linda Grant was born in Liverpool in 1951. Since 1985 she has worked as a freelance journalist for b
Worth the Read billski I listened to Linda Grant on National Public Radio, Fresh Air program yesterday. Very interesting and moving.I can relate to it as my father went thru a similar decline over a 3 year period. He suffered from TIA "mini-strokes" that slowly diminish selected brain capabiliti. A memoir of individual memory and family history D. Cloyce Smith Linda Grant, a feature writer for the Guardian [UK], has written a memoir about memory, focusing both on the loss of her family's history as the older generations die off and the deterioration of her mother's mind due to Multi-Infarct Dementia [MID], which stifles short-te. beautiful and sad If you've ever had a relative or loved one slip away into dementia, this book will strike home. And if you've had a friend going through this experience, this book will help you to understand what they are going through. This book, like the experience of living with dement