The Story of My Father by Sue Miller (ISBN:0345455444)

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		The Story of My Father: A Memoir
	
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			Sue Miller		
	
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK In the fall of 1988, Sue Miller found herself caring for her father, James Nichols, once a truly vital man, as he...more
 A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK In the fall of 1988, Sue Miller found herself caring for her father, James Nichols, once a truly vital man, as he succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease. Beginning an intensely personal journey, she recalls the bitter irony of watching this church historian wrestle with his increasingly befuddled notion of time and meaning. She details the struggles with doctors, her own choices, and the attempt to find a caring response to a disease whose special cruelty is to diminish the humanity of those it strikes. In luminous prose, Sue Miller has fashioned a compassionate inventory of two lives, a memoir destined to offer comfort to all sons and daughters struggling to make peace with their fathers and with themselves.   less

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few weeks ago

A poignant, personal account of losing a Father through Alzheimer's and gaining an understanding of a daughter's relationship with her Father. It is quite short, with good information about the disease and wonderful insight. The subject is very depressing, though, and there is little humor in the book. One other interesting aspect is Sue Miller's accounting of the process of writing.

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