Remind Me Who I Am Again
Linda Grant
Non-fiction story of the author's mother's dementia. It's an
interesting read and not as distressing as might be expected
because of the humour with which it is written.
Jean 21/12/03
She's a good writer. It's a gritty subject. Her mother begins to
suffer with memory loss. Another dimension (that of Jewish
immigrant insecurities) is also explored. Her mother is very
concerned about appearances and tries to cover up her memory loss
because she is worried about losing face. This is a subject not
much written about.
Gill 18/4/04
An extremely well written and highly readable autobiographical
book centred around the author's Mother's descent into short term
memory loss in her old age. Descriptions of the very difficult
situations that occur are quite harrowing but these are offset
with excellent background material about growing up in an
immigrant Jewish family in Liverpool, which soften the blow a
little by contextualising her mother's life. There's also much
about how some memory is hard wired into our brain, while other,
possibly more 'important' stuff is easily forgotten.
Andrew 23/5/04
By the same author
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