Welcome to the departure lounge : adventures in mothering mother
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Moorhead Public Library | 921 FED (Text) | 33500010064814 | Main | Available | - |
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400067954
- ISBN: 1400067952
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Physical Description:
191 p. ; 25 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, c2009.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | I demand an autopsy! -- Home-care hotel -- Meltdown at the departure lounge -- Pass the sauce -- Adrift -- Digging down -- To her health -- Falling apart -- Last call. |
Summary, etc.: | The author relates her poignant and hilariously tumultuous journey caring for her eighty-year-old mother and newly minted step-father who were forced to accept full-time home care. |
Author Notes
Meg Federico regularly writes humor for the National Post. Her work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Shambhala Sun, and Agni Magazine (Boston University Press). She has written commentary and created documentaries for CBC Radio. For several years, she wrote a successful column, âTransitions: Issues in Caregiving,â for the Halifax Daily News. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with her family.