Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.
Sto caricando le informazioni... The Journey Home: Portraits of Healingdi Gabriel Bron
Nessuna etichetta Nessuno Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Premi e riconoscimenti
The Journey Home is a novel narrated through 35 engaging vignettes involving a son's relationship with his parents during their final year of life. Using amplified recollections, vivid dreams, and impressionistic illustrations. The Journey Home leads the reader on an amazing pilgrimage of discovery and healing.Staring with the onset of his mother's Alzheimer's and proceeding through the eventual admission of both his parents to nursing homes. The Journey Home explores the complex and intimate process of evolving relationship in the final passage of life.Immersing the reader in the experience of caring for someone facing physical decline and dementia, this novel offers encouragement for all caregivers of the elderly. Told with the warmth and humor, each vignette invites the reader to understand the bittersweet emotions that are part of grieving and healing. Through making honest connections with the past and present, the Journey narrative demonstrates how life-altering challenges can be faced with openness, dignity, and grace. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
Discussioni correntiNessunoCopertine popolariNessuno
Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriNessun genere VotoMedia:
Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |
The Journey Home: Portraits of Healing, by Gabriel Bron, is a collection of vignettes and memories, ultimately telling the story of a family as the parents age and cope with dementia.
The individual events and the family memories are unique, of course, but the story is about the universal experience of reversal, as parents age and begin to need care from their children. Looking at his parents’ full lives, Gabe, our narrator, is able to see his childhood memories and family stories with new depth. When it becomes clear that recovery is not possible, won’t go away with a rest, that there won’t be a miracle drug, The Journey Home becomes a gentle story about dignity and family affection as minds and bodies fail.
Well, I say this is a memoir about Alzheimer’s, but it really has familiar notes for anyone who’s ever returned home after a long time away. Gabe has traveled extensively so his experiences caring for aging parents is also about returning to childhood memories and getting to know and understand his parents in a later stage of life. Many of the vignettes are about connecting what he’s seen on his travels with his memories of small-town life, and about connecting different worldviews.
The non-linear format of this book feels like a story in translation, perhaps from Gabe’s years living abroad, or simply because real life rarely fits neatly into rising action, climax, falling action, and then resolution that American kids learn in high school. Anyone who has cared for a relative or coped with their own medical issues knows that disease rarely takes a straight line. There are reasons for optimism as well as serious setbacks in this story, without a real pattern, just as in real life. This book is told in connected scenes and memories, creating the feel of family life over years.
The Journey Home is a recommended read for caregivers, as well as a sensitive look at one family for any readers. ( )