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Sto caricando le informazioni... When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jodi Jo Maeder
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Memoir of daughter who decides to care for the mother she felt abandoned her as a child and who exasperates. She finds she is more like her mother than she realized and that her mom to an amazing woman who really cares for her. This is a story of their situation in the last years of her mother?s life. I very much enjoyed. An interesting account of Jo Maeder's decision to care for her aging (and ultimately dying) mother. She relocates from New York to North Carolina and changes her life in every way possible in order to take care of Mama Jo. What she discovers is that she gets as much from her mother as she gives. She is given the rare chance to get to know a person only a moment before it is too late. The book was an easy read, with some laughter to lighten the inevitable sadness. It made me so glad that I always KNEW my own mother so intimately and that I did not have to wonder who she was at the end of her life. I miss mine every day, so this intimate tale did seem to be about what really matters in life to me. As many of our generation find that we are parenting the very people we were raised by, this story offers a look at what reconciliation can give back to us. Becoming her mother's caregiver seems to have made whole the family Maeder lost in the years spent accomplishing her career. And in the telling, she creates a new vision for herself as an author. At first, it seems that their lives might be polar opposites: Jo Maeder had made a name for herself in radio in the Northeast, but her elderly mother was losing her faculties down South in the Bible Belt. Jo Maeder writes in a very comfortable manner, revealing the wry sense of humor that also made her a well-liked radio DJ. When I read this book, I had very recently lost my own mother, and more than once found tears streaming down my face, remembering my own struggles with elder care and the feeling that I was alone. If anything, this book proves that we are all in it together. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Jo Maeder was an ambitious DJ in New York City when she did the unthinkable: she moved to the Bible Belt to look after her frail, estranged mother, who had long been a source of intense frustration. Maeder's tumultuous journey from simply living with "Mama Jo" to learning to truly love her not only changed Maeder's life, but also was the catalyst for pulling her long-fractured family together again. Though often rocky, their "marriage" was a triumph that taughther about life, faith, and what really matters. With an estimated 34 million informal caregivers in the United States today, more and more adult children are finding themselves in similar circumstances. Poignant and refreshingly funny, Maeder's story will resonate with this vast audience, providing an informative and inspirational roadmap for compassionate elder care. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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