Why read The House on Beartown Road?

Book cover of The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting

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'Daddy walks around, dropping pieces of language behind him, the baby following, picking them up. He asks for 'the liquid substance from the spigot'. She asks for 'wawa'. He wants a tissue to wipe his 'blowing device'. She says 'Wipe, Mummy' and points to her runny nose. The brain of…

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Why read it?

1 author picked The House on Beartown Road as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Tanya Ward Goodman

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I was a new mother when I read this Alzheimer’s memoir and immediately felt that I’d found a friend. Elizabeth Cohen is funny, lyrical, and sometimes (understandably) frustrated as she takes on the bruising balance of managing a career while simultaneously caring for her aging father and her young daughter. The book is a testimony to the healing power of story and provided a valuable model to me as I sought to make sense of my own family experience by committing my memories to the page.

From Tanya's list on alzheimer’s caregivers.