Dancing through the Storm - Softcover

Rudnicki, Barbara

9781617662867: Dancing through the Storm

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ISBN 10: 1617662860 ISBN 13: 9781617662867

Publisher: 4 Square Books, 2020

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This is the story of Barbara’s journey with her mother through her mother’s Alzheimer’s. While it is a devastating, debilitating disease, they found moments of joy and laughter along the way. It also tells the story of Barbara’s journey from childhood family dysfunction to forgiveness. Both journeys coalesce when Barbara and her three sisters unite as adults to give their mother loving care during the final years of her life. Barbara’s love of dance weaves in and out of both journeys, culminating in a surprising interaction between Barbara and her mother during her mother’s advanced Alzheimer’s stage.

Barbara Rudnicki is retired after teaching high school English for forty years. Now Barbara works part time at Dancin’ Feet dance studio where she clogs once a week with fun women of all ages. For over twenty-five years she has enjoyed summer trips exploring Minnesota with a group of teacher friends and finds that no matter how small the town, it has fun surprises. She loves spending time with her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. While this is Barbara’s first adventure in publishing, she has read her work at places such as the Loft, Patrick’s Cabaret, and the Blue Moon Cafe.

Barbara Rudnicki’s Dancing Through the Storm is a memoir written about a woman who forgets and the women around her, her daughters, who refuse to forget. The slow then quick then slow then quick presentation of the descent of Barb’s mother’s Alzheimer’s Disease is carefully paced in Dancing Through the Storm so that the book itself begins to feel like a dance between the author and the reader. Indeed, a dancing trope, in an extended metaphor that runs throughout, provides moments of joy in a book that is nevertheless deeply sad but necessary reading for any reader who’s life has been touched by Dementia or Alzheimer’s Disease.—Nicole Helget, Minnesota Book Award Author The End of the Wild

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