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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Journey Homedi Michael Baron
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The Journey Home by Michael Baron This book follows a few different groups of people. Joseph wakes up and has lost his memory and knows he must find home where his wife will be worried about him. Antoniette is in a nursing home and waits for Jeffrey to come visit. Her days are filled with remembering her husband and when they were first married. Warren her son, divorced, no job comes to visit daily and she offers tea to him but he discovers she has no tea bags and there's none in the trash, after she's said she just had a cup. We have been at this place with my mother in law and its heartbreaking to see and be a part of. She is trying to keep in her 'home' and not be with the other residents of the adult assisted living facility. Warren needs to find a new 'home' also. That's the common thread they all share in this book. Warren has a solution to her outbreaks in public restaurants and her memory loss... Will, a teenage boy takes Joseph for a ride to bring him back home-after hours he has no idea where it is... Love all the talk of cooking and the different combinations of food and substitutions. Excerpts and author's thoughts on his other writings are included at the end of the book. I received this book from Libboo.com via The Story Plant in exchange for my honest opinion As a man deals with his mothers Alzheimers and her diminished physical ablities, he uses cooking to try to bring her back to the moment. His mother was an amazing cook and named her dishes after friends and family. While the cooking brings her moments of lucidity, it brings the man more. It inspires in him a passion for life and love again. We also get a glimpse into the mother's mind and where she is when she is not in the present. A wonderful heartwarming story. Very quick read! nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML:Joseph, a man in his late thirties, awakens disoriented and uneasy in a place he doesn't recognize. Several people are near him when he opens his eyes, all strangers. All of them seem perfectly friendly, but none of them can explain to him how he got there. They offer him a delicious meal and pleasant conversation in a beautifully decorated room. This would be a very nice experience if not for one thing: Joseph doesn't know where he is and he has no way to contact his wife, who he is sure is worried sick over him. Thanking the people for their hospitality, he leaves to make his way back home. The only problem is that whatever happened to him has stripped him of most of his memories. He knows he needs to get back to his wife, but he doesn't know how to find her. He sets out on a journey to find his home with no sense of where he's going and only the precious, indelible vision of the woman he loves to guide him. Antoinette is an elderly woman in an assisted living facility. She??s spent the last six years there since her husband died, and most of those years have been happy. She enjoys the company of others in her situation and her son comes to visit often. But in recent months, she??s had a tougher and tougher time leaving her room. Her friends seem different to her and the world seems increasingly confusing. She spends an escalating amount of time on a journey inside her head. There, her body and mind haven??t betrayed her. There, she??s a young newlywed with a husband who dotes on her and an entire life of dreams to live. There, she is truly home. Warren, Antoinette??s son, is a man in his early forties going through the toughest year of his life. His marriage ended, he lost his job, and in the past few months, his mother has gone from hale to increasingly hazy. Having trouble finding work, he spends more and more time by his mother??s bedside. But her lack of lucidity both frustrates and frightens him. With far too much time on his hands, he decides to try to recreate his memories of home by attempting to cook his mother??s greatest dishes using the rudimentary appliances available in her room. He finds the challenge surprisingly rewarding, especially because the only time he feels his mother is truly with him anymore is when she is eating the meals he prepares for her. Joseph, Antoinette, and Warren are three people on different searches for home. How they find it, and how they connect with one another at this critical stage in each of their lives, is the foundation for a profound and Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Antoinette is an elderly woman in an assisted living facility. Her son, Warren, visits her daily and decides to cook some meals that she used make him while he was growing up. She assists him with her expertise which he enjoys. It also provides her an outlet other than watching TV all day.
When his mother starts to fail and stays in bed most of the day, he loses his dining partner. He decides to ask her nurse, Jan, to be his dining companion. They continue to dine in his mom's room until the mom passes away.
This is a very enjoyable read. There is a connection amongst the characters. One must read it to figure out the puzzle. I hope you get the chance to do just that. ( )