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050	0	0	_aRC523.2 _b.H43 2014
082	1		_a92 HED _2
100	1		_aHedreen, Ann
245	1	0	_aHer beautiful brain _c/ Ann Hedreen.
260			_aBerkeley, CA _b: She Writes Press _c, 2014
300			_a184 p. _c; 22 cm
505	0	0	_gPrologue. _tTyping class -- _tIn Haiti -- _tTonight, tonight -- _tThe tennis club -- _tA hundred Christmases -- _tSisu -- _tThe Madrona house -- _tThe troubles -- _tGero psych -- _tJohn the divine -- _tIf, if, if -- _tThe Helsinki Yacht Club -- _tNorthern House -- _gEpilogue. _tLight she was.
520			_aHer 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.
546			_aEnglish.
600	1	4	_aHedreen, Ann _x-Families
650		4	_aAlzheimer's disease _x-Patients _x-Family relationships
650		4	_aAlzheimer's disease _x-Patients _x-Care
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