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Anne-Marie Oomen, "As Long As I Know You: The Mom Book" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
In As Long As I Know You: The Mom Book (U Georgia Press, 2022), Ann-Marie Oomen offers a real-time narrative of walking her mother through dementia to the end of her life. Writer Pam Houston once summed it up: "Nice mother-daughter stories are a dime a dozen; pain-in-the-ass mother-daughter stories are the ones that grab us." We start this rending journey witnessing the small-not-small clashes between a mother and daughter who don't much like each other, and end in a tender, hopeful place that remains bright, real and raw. As the millions of women like Oomen's mother reach their elder years…
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