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02684aam a2200409 i 4500 001 ECC3C746BA2511ECB53FBC0B2BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220412010042 008 210706s2022 nyu 000 0aeng d 020 $a 9781982178932 020 $a 1982178930 035 $a (OCoLC)1259049306 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d GK8 $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d IHV $d OCLCO $d IOU $d SILO 100 1 $a Morton, Brian, $d 1955- $e author. 245 10 $a Tasha : $b a son's memoir. 264 1 $a New York : $b Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. $c 2022. 300 $a 196 pages $c 22 cm 520 $a "Acclaimed novelist Brian Morton delivers a moving, darkly funny memoir of his mother's vibrant life and the many ways in which their tight but turbulent relationship was refashioned in her twilight years. Tasha Morton is a force of nature: a brilliant educator who's left her mark on generations of students -- and also a whirlwind of a mother: intrusive, chaotic, oppressively devoted and irrepressible. For decades, her son, Brian, has kept her at a self-protective distance, but when her health begins to fail, he knows it's time to assume responsibility for her care. Even so, he's not prepared for what awaits him, as her refusal to accept her own fragility leads to a series of epic outbursts and altercations that are sometimes frightening, sometimes wildly comic, and sometimes both. Clear-eyed, loving and brimming with dark humor, Tasha is both a vivid account of an unforgettable woman and a stark look at the impossible task of caring for an elderly parent in a country whose unofficial motto is "you're on your own." Turning his novelist's eye on his own life, Brian Morton lays bare the treacherous business at the heart of every family -- the business of trying to honor ourselves without forsaking our parents, and our parents , and our parents without forsaking ourselves." - jacket 600 10 $a Morton, Brian, $d 1955- $x Family. 650 0 $a Mothers and sons. 650 0 $a Aging parents. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 12 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417020000.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010033154.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20230516010737.0 952 $l VOPB384 $d 20230421010057.0 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331014513.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20220902012616.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20220802023125.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630014455.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20220630010415.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20220615010445.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220510011730.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220412011444.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=ECC3C746BA2511ECB53FBC0B2BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search