Ann Hedreen

Her Beautiful Brain (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Her Beautiful Brain is Ann Hedreen's story of what it was like to become a mom just as her beautiful, brainy mother began to lose her mind to an unforgiving disease. Arlene was a copper miner's daughter who was divorced twice, widowed once, raised six kids singlehandedly, survived the turbulent '60s, and got her B.A. and M.A. at 40 so she could support her family as a Seattle schoolteacheronly to start showing signs of Alzheimer's disease in her late fifties, taking Ann and her siblings on a long descent they never could have anticipated or imagined. For two decadesas Ann married, had a daughter and a son, navigated career changes and marital crises and built a life making documentary films with her husbandshe watched her once-invincible mom disappear. From Seattle to Haiti to the mine-gouged Finntown neighborhood in Butte, Montana where she was born and grew up; from Arlene's favorite tennis club to a locked geropsychiatric ward, Her Beautiful Brain tells the heartbreaking story of a daughter's love for a mother who is lost in the wilderness of an unpredictable and harrowing illness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781938314933
• Artikelnr.: 41345784

Autorenporträt

Ann Hedreen is a writer, filmmaker and teacher. She is a fellow in the Journalists in Aging Fellows Program of the Gerontological Society of America, and speaks and writes often about creative aging in 3rd Act Magazine and elsewhere, including her award-winning blog, The Restless Nest. Her memoir, Her Beautiful Brain, won a 2016 Next Generation Indie book award. She lives in Seattle.