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Walking the Night Road - Coming of Age in Grief (Hardcover)
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Walking the Night Road - Coming of Age in Grief (Hardcover)
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The house looked as if she'd brushed it over with a hurried hand.
Things were open-drawers, cans, and closets. A pile of newspapers
fanned out across the floor by the front door, and still I did not
wonder. She must have dropped them as she ran, I thought. My mother
was often late. But had I stopped to look, I would have seen the
fear in the way the house had settled-a footstool that lay on its
side, several books that had fallen from their shelves. When you
count back, you can see a story from the end. I like that-the
seemingly natural narrative that forms this way. With the end in my
hand, the story becomes mine. I can have it all make sense, or I
can lose my mind like she lost hers-like I lost her. But I can have
my story. Walking the Night Road speaks to the experience of caring
for a loved one with a terminal illness and the difficulties of
encountering death. Alexandra Butler, daughter of the Pulitzer
Prize-winning gerontologist Robert N. Butler and respected social
worker and psychotherapist Myrna Lewis, composes a lyrical yet
unsparing portrait of caring for her mother during her sudden,
quick decline from brain cancer. Her rich account shares the
strains of caregiving on both the provider and the person receiving
care and recognizes the personal and professional sacrifices
caregivers must make to fulfill the role. More than a memoir of
dying and grief, Butler's account also tests many of the theories
her parents pioneered in their work on healthy aging. Authors of
such seminal works as Love and Sex After Sixty, Butler's parents
were forced to rethink many of the tenets they lived by while Myrna
was incapacitated, and Butler's father found himself relying
heavily on his daughter to provide his wife's care. Butler's
poignant and unflinching story is therefore a rare examination of
the intimate aspects of aging and death experienced by
practitioners who suddenly find themselves in the difficult
position of the clients they once treated.
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