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Finding Rosa
Caterina Edwards
其他書名
A Mother with Alzheimer's, a Daughter in Search of the Past
出版Greystone, 2008
主題Biography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsHealth & Fitness / Diseases / Alzheimer's & Dementia
ISBN15536538909781553653899
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=j-P8wAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋When her mother, Rosa, begins to show signs of Alzheimer's, Caterina Edwards embarks on a complex journey - at once geographical, intellectual, and emotional - that turns out to be a journey in search of the past and of home.
As Rosa loses her memory and her sense of herself, Edwards travels to Istria, now part of Croatia, to get at the truth of her mother's past. There she discovers the suppressed history of Istria - the ethnic cleansing of her mother's people - and uncovers Rosa's personal losses - her family's exile, her father's mysterious death, and the roots of Rosa's own sense of never belonging.
Caught in that ever-growing "sandwich generation" of women caring for both their own children and their ailing, aging parents, Edwards also balances the demands of raising teenage daughters with the pressures of looking after her deteriorating mother. During the four years that Edwards cares for her mother, she must deal with her mother's confusion, hostility, paranoia, and fear, as well as her own physical and emotional exhaustion.
Through these intertwined journeys, Edwards braves an area of darkness with and for her mother and finally comes to know who she really was.