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Title:

An uncertain inheritance : writers on caring for family / edited by Nell Casey ; foreword by Frank McCourt.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

William Morrow,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xvii, 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Caregivers.
Home nursing.
Caring.

Other Authors:

Casey, Nell, 1971-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

My father the garbage head / Helen Schulman -- The gift / Sam Lipsyte -- My other husband / Ann Harleman -- Elliott / Jerome Groopman -- Caring across borders: aging parents in another country / Julia Alvarez -- Called them vitamins / Steve Yadzinski -- Ruth / Justine Picardie -- Notes on accepting care / Andrew Solomon -- The baby / Anne Landsman -- Death in slow motion / Eleanor Cooney -- Mourning in Altaic / Ed Bok Lee -- Don't worry. It's not an emergency / Susan Lehman -- In the land of little girls / Ann Hood -- The vital role / Amanda Fortini -- Planet autism / Scot Sea -- The day the world split open / Abigail Thomas -- The elephant in the room / Stan Mack -- Transformed by a touch / Kerrel McKay -- The animal game; or, how I learned to take care of myself by letting others care for me / Julia Glass.

ISBN:

0060875313 (pbk.)
9780060875312 (pbk.)
0060875305 (hbk.)
9780060875305 (hbk.)

LCCN:

2007035456

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

KWPE446 -- Mount Pleasant Public Library (Mount Pleasant)

UBPC631 -- Webb Shadle Public Library (Pleasantville)