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A powerful, ground-shifting accounts of looking after a parent with Alzheimer's, about which Maya Angelou exclaimed, "Joy!" Since Cathie Borrie shipped her keynote performance at the World Alzheimer's Day event sponsored by the Community and Access Programs of the Museum of Modern Art, her self-published manuscript has received rapturous reward from noted freelance writers and Alzheimer's experts likewise, from Maya Angelou, Lisa Genova, and Molly Peacock to Dr. Charge Thomas; Jed A. Levine of the Alzheimer's Relationship, NYC; and Meryl Comer of the Geoffrey Beene Basis Alzheimer's Initiative. Now it is available to everyone for the very first time in a trade model. The Long Hello distills the seven years the writer spent looking after her mother into a pause-resisting memoir that offers perception in to the "altering world of the dementia mind". During that time Borrie noted brief conversations she had with her mother that revealed the transformations within - and sometimes yielded an almost Zen-like poetry. She includes choices from them in chapters about her experience that are as evocative as journal entries. Her mother was the emotional pillar and sometime breadwinner in a home handled by a beginning father's alcoholism, a brother's early fatality, divorce, and a stepfather's remoteness. In Borrie's free prose, her mother's account becomes a family's account as well a deeply adoring family portrait that embraces life.
