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The Long Hello

Memory, My Mother, and Me

By: Cathie Borrie

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The Long Hello

Memory, My Mother, and Me

By: Cathie Borrie

A powerful, ground-shifting account of caring for a parent with Alzheimer's about which Maya Angelou exclaimed, "Joy!" Since Cathie Borrie delivered her keynote performance at the World Alzheimer's Day event sponsored by the Community and Access Programs of the Museum of Modern Art, her self-published manuscript has won rapturous praise from noted writers and Alzheimer's experts alike, from Maya Angelou, Lisa Genova, and Molly Peacock to Dr. Bill Thomas, Jed A. Levine of the Alzheimer's Association, NYC, and Meryl Comer of the Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer's Initiative. Now it is available to the general public for the first time in a trade edition. The Long Hello distills the seven years the author spent caring for her mother into a page-turning memoir that offers insight into the "altering world of the dementia mind." During that time, Borrie recorded brief conversations she had with her mother that revealed the transformations within—and sometimes yielded an almost Zenlike poetry. She includes selections from them in chapters about her experience that are as evocative as diary entries. Her mother was the emotional pillar and sometime breadwinner in a home touched by a birth father's alcoholism, a brother's early death, divorce, and a stepfather's remoteness. In Borrie's spare prose, her mother's story becomes a family's story as well a deeply loving portrait that embraces life.

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Memory, My Mother, and Me

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Alzheimer's

Poetic and Eccentric Realities

By: Cathie Borrie,Joan Borrie

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Alzheimer's

Poetic and Eccentric Realities

By: Cathie Borrie,Joan Borrie

This beautiful poem of a book, "looking into your voice the poetic and eccentric realities of alzheimer's," is a collection of conversations offering alternative and beautiful insights into the Alzheimer's mind. Celebrating the revelatory eloquence of the altered realities of dementia, these vignettes are from Cathie Borrie's lyrical memoir, "The Long Hello The Other Side of Alzheimer's," which chronicles and cherishes the relationship between a mother and daughter over a seven-year period as the mother's mind transforms and her dementia increases. The mother's voice weaves throughout the memoir with insight, humor and an astonishing poetic sensibility, challenging the negative stereotypes pervasive in the current and often limiting geography of dementia.

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The Other Side of Alzheimer's

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The Other Side of Alzheimer's

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This sensuous memoir strips away all preconceptions about what it means to be, or to love, a person with Alzheimer's, giving comfort to those who have walked the caregiving path and offering insight, hope, and a compass to those embarking on the journey. -- Cover, p. [4].

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