- Published: 06/01/2011
- ISBN: 9781847082695
- 130x20mm
- 320 pages
Remind Me Who I Am, Again
Linda Grant
At the beginning of the 1990s, Linda Grant’s mother, Rose, was diagnosed with Dementia. In Remind Me Who I Am, Again Linda Grant tells the story of Rose’s illness and tries to reconstruct the history of their Jewish immigrant family, stalking them from Russia and Poland to New York and London. Writing with humour and great tenderness, Grant explores profound questions about memory, autonomy and identity, and asks if we can ever really know our parents.
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Grant's account of her mother's dementia takes us on that descent into darkness, further and further from the light of the recognizable ... She offers not just a moving account of an illness, but a delicate, sensitive consideration of the relationship between memory and identity
Rebecca Abrams, Independent on Sunday
Written with an astonishing lack of self-pity; it is what she does not say about her own feelings that makes this one of the most powerful books I have ever read ... It is heroic
Herald
This is a beautifully written and rigorously honest book