Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's: One Daughter's Hopeful Story - Softcover

Kessler, Lauren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143113682 ISBN 13: 9780143113683

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2008

Synopsis

Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's A compelling, clear-eyed, and emotionally resonant narrative, this work offers a new optimistic look at what the disease can teach, and offers a much-needed tonic for those faced with providing care for someone they love.

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Review:

a Heartening and thought-provoking. . . . Kessler deftly marries research with hands-on experiences.a
a"The Seattle Times"
a Direct and courageous. . . . Anyone affected by the diseasea and thatas almost everyoneahas to read this book.a
aBarbara Ehrenreich, author of "Nickel and Dimed" and "Bait and Switch"

Heartening and thought-provoking. . . . Kessler deftly marries research with hands-on experiences.
"The Seattle Times"
Direct and courageous. . . . Anyone affected by the disease and that s almost everyone has to read this book.
Barbara Ehrenreich, author of "Nickel and Dimed" and "Bait and Switch"

? Heartening and thought-provoking. . . . Kessler deftly marries research with hands-on experiences.?
?"The Seattle Times"

? Direct and courageous. . . . Anyone affected by the disease? and that's almost everyone?has to read this book.?
?Barbara Ehrenreich, author of "Nickel and Dimed" and "Bait and Switch"

About the Author:

Lauren Kessler is the author of six works of narrative nonfiction, including Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts, and My Midlife Quest to Dance the Nutcracker, the Washington Post bestseller Clever Girl, and the Los Angeles Times bestseller The Happy Bottom Riding Club. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, O magazine, and The Nation. She directs the graduate program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon and lives in Eugene, Oregon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0143113682
• ISBN 13: 9780143113683
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272