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As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book

Name: As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book
Brand: University of Georgia Press
SKU: 9780820362540
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Contributors:

Anne-Marie Oomen, Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Selected by)

Publisher:

University of Georgia Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography

Book Subcategory:

Parenting, Personal Memoirs, Eldercare

Series:

The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction

Award:

2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Bronze Medal Winner - Autobiography/Memoir Award

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Release Date:

2022-09-15

ISBN 13:

9780820362540

Weight:

0.49 lbs

Size:

8.50 x 5.50 x 0.52 inches

Pages:

208

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Writer Pam Houston once summed it up: "Nice mother-daughter stories are a dime a dozen; pain-in-the-ass mother-daughter stories are the ones that grab us." As Long as I Know You is a compelling read for any adult grappling with a living elder who might also be a pain in the ass, particularly, any reader who wants a tender take on the lethal combination of dementia and defiance.

As Long as I Know You narrates Anne-Marie Oomen's journey to finally knowing her mother as well as the heartbreaking loss of her mother's immense capacities. It explores how humor and compassion grow belatedly between a mother and daughter who don't much like each other. It's a personal map to find a mother who may have been there all along, then losing her again in the time of Covid. As the millions of women like Oomen's mother reach their elder years and become the "oldest of the old," their millions of daughters (and sometimes sons) must come on board, involved in care they may welcome the way they'd welcome hitting a pothole the size of a semi. How a family makes decisions about that pothole, how care continues or does not, how possessions are addressed--really, no one wants the crockpot--and how the relationship shifts and evolves (or not), that story is universal.

About the Author

ANNE-MARIE OOMEN is the author of The Lake Michigan Mermaid (coauthored with Linda Nemec Foster), Pulling Down the Barn, House of Fields, An American Map: Essays, Uncoded Woman, and Love, Sex, and 4-H. She has written seven plays, including the award-winning The Secrets of Luuce Talk Tavern. She is a poetry and nonfiction instructor at Solstice MFA at Lasell University and Interlochen College of Creative Arts. She and her husband, David Early, live in their handmade house near Traverse City, Michigan. Visit her at www.anne-marieoomen.com.

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