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Author: Anne-Marie Oomen ,
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Weight: 0.363kg
ISBN: 9780820362540
ISBN 10: 0820362549
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 15 September 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
There is a brave intimacy in As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book. Such a thorough, deep remembrance casts its gaze not only on those who have passed but the devastation of loss itself. Laced into these exquisite sentences is a lesson for us all on how to honor a life. -- Aimee Nezhukumatathil * author of World of Wonders * In this courageous, poetic, grief-stricken book, Anne-Marie Oomen recounts the story of her mother’s final years and of how mother and daughter struggled through a difficult, life-long relationship. Oomen reminds us that dying is work, both physical and emotional, for both the patient and her loved ones. In the end, there isn’t reconciliation but something perhaps even more profound: understanding. -- Amy Hoffman * author of Lies about My Family * The immediacy of love, the urgency of forgiveness, the depths of grief are all here rendered in a prose as beautifully improvisational as the love of a grown child for a fractious, beloved, failing parent. Oomen's lyric recollections are a sacred harvest of what can be kept and an acknowledgment of what must be surrendered. Both wrenching and buoyant, particular and expansive, this is personal writing at its very best. -- Richard Hoffman * Half the House and Love & Fury *
The immediacy of love, the urgency of forgiveness, the depths of grief are all here rendered in a prose as beautifully improvisational as the love of a grown child for a fractious, beloved, failing parent. Oomen's lyric recollections are a sacred harvest of what can be kept and an acknowledgment of what must be surrendered. Both wrenching and buoyant, particular and expansive, this is personal writing at its very best.--Richard Hoffman Half the House and Love & Fury In this courageous, poetic, grief-stricken book, Anne-Marie Oomen recounts the story of her mother's final years and of how mother and daughter struggled through a difficult, life-long relationship. Oomen reminds us that dying is work, both physical and emotional, for both the patient and her loved ones. In the end, there isn't reconciliation but something perhaps even more profound: understanding.--Amy Hoffman author of Lies about My Family There is a brave intimacy in As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book. Such a thorough, deep remembrance casts its gaze not only on those who have passed but the devastation of loss itself. Laced into these exquisite sentences is a lesson for us all on how to honor a life.--Aimee Nezhukumatathil author of World of Wonders
Author Information
ANNE-MARIE OOMEN is the author of The Lake Michigan Mermaid (coauthored with Linda Nemec Foster), Pulling Down the Barn, House of Fields, An American Map: Essays, Uncoded Woman, and Love, Sex, and 4-H. She has written seven plays, including the award-winning The Secrets of Luuce Talk Tavern. She is a poetry and nonfiction instructor at Solstice MFA at Lasell University and Interlochen College of Creative Arts. She and her husband, David Early, live in their handmade house near Traverse City, Michigan. Visit her at www.anne-marieoomen.com.
