Bird-Bent Grass: A Memoir, in Pieces (Life Writing)

When her mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, the author returns to letters they'd exchanged years before, to foster her mother's engagement with reading and thinking. Bird-bent Grass uses excerpts from their correspondence to explore memory, illness, friendship, conflict, cross-cultural communication, and letters' timeless power.

• | Author: Kathleen Venema
• | Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 18, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 354 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1771122900
• | ISBN-13: 9781771122900