Feeding my mother : comfort and laughter in the kitchen as my mom lives with memory loss / Jann Arden.
Publisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, [2017]Copyright date: �2017Description: 195 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour)Content type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0735273928
- 9780735273924
- Arden, Jann -- Family
- Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Care -- Alberta
- Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Alberta
- Mothers and daughters -- Alberta -- Biography
- Caregivers -- Alberta -- Biography
- Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Alberta -- Biography
- Musicians -- Canada -- Biography
- Cooking
- 362.19683110092 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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300 - 399 | Flesherton Branch Shelves | 362 .1968 3110 092 Arden (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 32241001141961 | ||
300 - 399 | Kimberley Branch Shelves | 362 .196 8311 0092 Arden (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 36990002025922 |
Based on her popular Facebook posts and Instagram photos, Feeding My Mother is a frank, funny, and honest account of the transformation in Jann Arden's life that has turned her into the primary "parent" to her mom, who is in the grip of Alzheimer's. Jann Arden moved in to a house just across the way from her parents in rural Alberta to be close to them but also so they could be her refuge from the demands of the music business and a performing career. Funny how time works. Since her dad died in 2015, Jann cooks for her mom five or six times a week. Her mom finds comfort in her daughter's kitchen, not just in the delicious food but also just sitting with her as she cooks. And Jann finds some peace in caring for her mom, even as her mom slowly becomes a stranger. "If you told me two years ago that I'd be here," Jann writes, "I wouldn't have believed it. And yet we still fall into so much laughter, feel so much insane gladness and joy. It's such a contrast from one minute to the next and it teaches me constantly: it makes me stronger and more humble and more empathetic and caring and kind." The many people who are dealing with a loved one who is losing it will find inspiration and strength in Jann's wholehearted, loving response and her totally Jann take on the upside-down world of a daughter mothering her mother. Feeding My Mother is an affirmation that life just keeps on keeping on, and a wonderful example of how you have to roll with it.
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