Her beautiful brain / Ann Hedreen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley, CA : She Writes Press , 2014Description: 184 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781938314926
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 92 HED 
LOC classification:
  • RC523.2 .H43 2014
Contents:
Prologue. Typing class -- In Haiti -- Tonight, tonight -- The tennis club -- A hundred Christmases -- Sisu -- The Madrona house -- The troubles -- Gero psych -- John the divine -- If, if, if -- The Helsinki Yacht Club -- Northern House -- Epilogue. Light she was.
Summary: Her Beautiful Brain is Ann Hedreen's story of what it was like to become a mom just as her beautiful, brainy mother began to lose her mind to an unforgiving disease. Arlene was a copper miner's daughter who was divorced twice, widowed once, raised six kids singlehandedly, survived the turbulent '60s, and got her B.A. and M.A. at 40 so she could support her family as a Seattle schoolteacher - only to start showing signs of Alzheimer's disease in her late fifties, taking Ann and her siblings on a long descent they never could have anticipated or imagined. For two decades - as Ann married, had a daughter and a son, navigated career changes and marital crises and built a life making documentary films with her husband - she watched her once-invincible mom disappear. From Seattle to Haiti to the mine-gouged Finntown neighborhood in Butte, Montana where she was born and grew up; from Arlene's favorite tennis club to a locked geropsychiatric ward, Her Beautiful Brain tells the heartbreaking story of a daughter's love for a mother who is lost in the wilderness of an unpredictable and harrowing illness.
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Libro - Monografía Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles 92 HED (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Expurgado/No disponible 061985

Prologue. Typing class -- In Haiti -- Tonight, tonight -- The tennis club -- A hundred Christmases -- Sisu -- The Madrona house -- The troubles -- Gero psych -- John the divine -- If, if, if -- The Helsinki Yacht Club -- Northern House -- Epilogue. Light she was.

Her Beautiful Brain is Ann Hedreen's story of what it was like to become a mom just as her beautiful, brainy mother began to lose her mind to an unforgiving disease. Arlene was a copper miner's daughter who was divorced twice, widowed once, raised six kids singlehandedly, survived the turbulent '60s, and got her B.A. and M.A. at 40 so she could support her family as a Seattle schoolteacher - only to start showing signs of Alzheimer's disease in her late fifties, taking Ann and her siblings on a long descent they never could have anticipated or imagined. For two decades - as Ann married, had a daughter and a son, navigated career changes and marital crises and built a life making documentary films with her husband - she watched her once-invincible mom disappear. From Seattle to Haiti to the mine-gouged Finntown neighborhood in Butte, Montana where she was born and grew up; from Arlene's favorite tennis club to a locked geropsychiatric ward, Her Beautiful Brain tells the heartbreaking story of a daughter's love for a mother who is lost in the wilderness of an unpredictable and harrowing illness.

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