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Availability:In StockContributor:Elizabeth KadetskySeries:Juniper Prize for Creative NonfictionPublish date:2020-03-27Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Massachusetts PressISBN-13:9781625345028ISBN-10:162534502XUPC:9781625345028Book Category:Literary Collections, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Essays, WritingBook Topic:Nonfiction (Incl. Memoirs)Size:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCY4H60SY1
On autopsy, the brain of an Alzheimer's patient can weigh as little as 30 percent of a healthy brain. The tissue grows porous. It is a sieve through which the past slips.

As her mother loses her grasp on their shared history, Elizabeth Kadetsky sifts through boxes of the snapshots, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and notebooks that remain, hoping to uncover the memories that her mother is actively losing as her dementia progresses. These remnants offer the false yet beguiling suggestion that the past is easy to reconstruct-easy to hold.

At turns lyrical, poignant, and alluring, The Memory Eaters tells the story of a family's cyclical and intergenerational incidents of trauma, secret-keeping, and forgetting in the context of 1970s and 1980s New York City. Moving from her parents' divorce to her mother's career as a Seventh Avenue fashion model and from her sister's addiction and homelessness to her own experiences with therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder, Kadetsky takes readers on a spiraling trip through memory, consciousness fractured by addiction and dementia, and a compulsion for the past salved by nostalgia.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Massachusetts PressISBN-13:9781625345028ISBN-10:162534502XUPC:9781625345028Book Category:Literary Collections, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Essays, WritingBook Topic:Nonfiction (Incl. Memoirs)Size:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCY4H60SY1
ELIZABETH KADETSKY is author of the memoir First There Is a Mountain, the short story collection The Poison that Purifies You, and the novella On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World. A professor of creative writing at Penn State and nonfiction editor at the New England Review, she is the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Program, MacDowell Colony, and Vermont Studio Center.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press

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