All Gone: A Memoir of My Mother's Dementia. with Refreshments

by Alex Witchel

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159448791X
• ISBN13: 9781594487910
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher