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Looking Back, Moving Forward - Bittersweet: Essays : Essays

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When lawyer, wife and mother Candace Waynes beloved husband John is diagnosed with Lewy Bodies Dementia, she finally has a name for the small changes shes born witness to for years.In this essay collection, Candace offers snapshots of the years leading up to Johns death, and those that unfold afterward.Task-oriented and responsible, Candace is efficient in her role as caretaker, learning how to best support a husband who must come to terms with his slow-creeping loss of self-sufficiency.

Meanwhile, Candaces daughters have their own experience with their fathers changes, and the whole family must bend without breaking to accommodate his loss.By turns raw and contemplative, Candaces essays depict family road trips, restaurant outings, and doctors appointments, and finally Johns last breaths.Much like Joan Didions The Year of Magical Thinking, this collection is true to the experience of mourning, taking the reader through the authors real-time experiences before revisiting episodes through the lens of retrospect.Ultimately, the authors sadness makes way for reluctant optimism as Candace awakens to the bittersweet realization that the person her husbands death caused her to become is a woman shes grateful to know.

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1977274250 / 9781977274250
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16/04/2024
1 pages
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