- 261 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
When Hollis Giammatteo sought a job working with the elderly, she did so with the intention of finding models of healthy aging. And she failed. In The Shelf Life of Ashes, Giammatteo chronicles her experiences with her wards, as well as the trip she embarks upon when her mother, who is convinced she is dying, entreats her to come “home.” Trips back, traumas triggered, identity in crisis, equanimity gained—this quasi-comic, concentrated journey engages the reader in the process of naming and facing the tasks involved in growing old, while asking a simple but weighted question: Can aging be done well?
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Social Science BiographiesTable of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: A Complicated Journey
- Chapter 1: The Map of Aging Well
- Chapter 2: A Medley of Awkward Changes and Flagging Self-Esteem
- Chapter 3: Helen
- Chapter 4: Bloody Resignation
- Chapter 5: Role Reversal
- Chapter 6: Identity and Other Foolish Matters
- Chapter 7: Alice
- Chapter 8: John
- Chapter 9: The Quandaried Self
- Chapter 10: The Back Room, or How Not to Die
- Chapter 11: The Disappointment of Failed Connections
- Chapter 12: Riddles Abound in Resolution
- Chapter 13: My Christian Science
- Chapter 14: The Strange Case of Mother’s Knee
- Chapter 15: The Claudication of John
- Chapter 16: The Perfidy of Things
- Chapter 17: Love and Final Trips Remembered
- Chapter 18: Blue Toes, Silver Ashes
- Chapter 19: The Shelf Life of Ashes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Selected Titles from She Writes Press
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