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"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 middle-aged knees with conflicted feelings of grief and relief. Now they must empty and sell the beloved family home, twenty-three rooms bulging with history, antiques, and oxygen tanks. Plum thought: How tough will that be? I know how to buy garbage bags. But the…
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4 editions- Other · English · 2016Penguin Canada · 288 pages · 9780735233133
- Other · English · 2016G.P. Putnam's Sons · 279 pages · 9780399184093
- Other · English · 2016Thorndike Press Large Print · 9781410493354
- Other · English · 2014Penguin · 274 pages · 9780143189053
Adult children of aging parentsPersonal belongingsHouse furnishingsFamiliesFamilyParent and adult childHomes and hauntsCaregivers







