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On this beautiful book, Elizabeth Cohen gives us a true and moving portrait of the love and courage of a family group. Elizabeth, a member of the “sandwich generation,” people caught in the middle of simultaneously looking after their children and because of their aging parents, is the mother of Ava and the daughter of Daddy and responsible for both. Hers is the story of an woman’s battle to keep her family whole, to improve her child in a house of laughter and love, and to keep her father from hiding the home keys in his slippers. On this story filled with everyday triumphs, first steps, and elderly confusion, Ava, an infant, finds each new picture, each new word, each new song something to learn greedily, joyfully. Daddy is a guy in his twilight years for whom time moves slowly and lessons are not learned but quietly, frustratingly forgotten. Elizabeth, a suddenly single mother with a job and a mortgage and a hamper of laundry, finds her world spiraling uncontrollable yet filled with beauty. Faced with mounting disasters, she chooses to confront life at once. Written in prose imbued with unquenchable spirit, The House on Beartown Road is a journey through the exceptional landscape that is family.
