Book description
A warm, heartfelt memoir of family, loss, and a house jam-packed with decades of goods and memories.
After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents—first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother—author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers have finally fallen to their…
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1 author picked They Left Us Everything as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I've said in another review that I'm showing a bit of a tendency with some of the books I'm choosing this year. The three I've chosen for The Shepherd are all about aging parents. They Left Us Everything has particular significance for me since the title is literal. The parents left their children to deal with a mammoth task: that of emptying a house with 23 rooms filled with STUFF. While my parents are still alive (Mom is 93 and Dad is closing in on 97) and they moved to my city to be closer to us "as we age,"…
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