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A daughter's longing love letter to a mother who has slipped beyond reach Just past seventy, Alex Witchel's smart, adoring, ultracapable mother began to exhibit undeniable signs of dementia. Her smart, adoring, ultracapable daughter reacted as she'd been raised: If something was broken, they would fix it. But as medical reality undid that hope, and her mother continued the torturous process of disappearing in plain sight, Witchel retreated to the kitchen, trying to reclaim her mother at the stove by cooking the comforting foods of her childhood: "Is there any contract tighter than a family recipe?" Reproducing the perfect meat loaf was no panacea, but it helped Witchel come to terms with her predicament, the growing phenomenon of "ambiguous loss "-- loss of a beloved one who lives on. Gradually she developed a deeper appreciation for all the ways the parent she was losing lived on in her, starting with the daily commandment "Tell me everything that happened today" that started a future reporter and writer on her way. And she was inspired to turn her experience into this frank, bittersweet, and surprisingly funny account that offers true balm for an increasingly familiar form of heartbreak.
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Food, Popular works, Presenile dementia, Patients, Psychological aspects, Dementia, Comfort food, Biography, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Women, united states, biography, Mothers and daughters, Food, psychological aspects, Dementia, popular worksPeople
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All Gone: A Memoir of My Mother's Dementia. With Refreshments
Oct 01, 2013, Brilliance Audio
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All gone: a memoir of my mother's dementia, with refreshments
2013, Thorndike Press, Gale, Cengage Learning
in English
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1410454835 9781410454836
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All gone: a memoir of my mother's dementia. with refreshments
2013, Riverhead Books
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1594631859 9781594631856
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Just past seventy, Alex Witchel's smart, adoring, ultracapable mother began to exhibit signs of dementia. Her smart, adoring, ultracapable daughter reacted as she'd been raised: If something was broken, they would fix it. But medical reality undid that hope, and her mother continued to disappear in plain sight. So Witchel retreated to the kitchen, trying to reclaim her mother by cooking the comforting foods of her childhood.
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