Chapter One: What We Don’t Know
Chapter Two: Eating Cake
Chapter Three: Minding My Business
Chapter Four: House Hunt
Chapter Five: Smoking
Chapter Six: Mother-Daughter
Chapter Seven: Don’t Get Old
Chapter Eight: Forgetting
Chapter Nine: So Sue Me
Chapter Ten: Sundown at Sunrise
Chapter Eleven: Only Child
Chapter Twelve: Life Inside
Chapter Thirteen: Romper Room
Chapter Fourteen: Wintering
Chapter Fifteen: In the Pink
Chapter Sixteen: Imperfection
Chapter Seventeen: Bad News Santa
Chapter Eighteen: Hollywood Ending
Chapter Nineteen: The Moment
Chapter Twenty: Mother’s Day
Chapter Twenty-one: Till It’s Gone
Chapter Twenty-two: DNR
Chapter Twenty-three: Irish Wake
Chapter Twenty-four: After Words
Kate Whouley lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where she is the founder and owner of Books in Common, an independent book-industry consulting company. Her first book, Cottage for Sale, Must Be Moved, was a Book Sense Book-of-the-Year nominee. Whouley's personal essays have appeared in the Cape Cod Times, Boston Globe, and the book-industry online journal Shelf Awareness.
“A lovely, honest account of her mother’s decline into Alzheimer’s
disease.”—The Boston Globe
“In her often humorous and always compassionate
memoir, Whouley hopes to transform how people relate to a
loved one with Alzheimer's disease."—USA Today
“Whouley’s poignant, perceptive story of remembrance may not make
the word 'Alzheimer’s' any easier to hear, but her book offers a
perspective that may relieve, comfort and perhaps ease the minds of
those who are facing some of the same dilemmas with elder family
members – dilemmas about care, yes, but also about just how to take
in the idea of communicating with someone who will likely not
remember that communication scant moments later.”—The Barnstable
Patriot
“Whouley gracefully keeps a balance between poignancy and humor.
Her intelligent, sensitive voice is a treat…”—Shelf
Awareness
“Reading Kate Whouley’s memoir felt like sitting down with an old
friend over coffee...As a reader, I felt privileged to be on the
receiving end of such a confidence, which concerns the most
important issues: family, mortality, our aloneness in the world,
our connection in the face of it. I read it in two sittings
and turned the last page with regret.”—David Payne, author
of Back to Wando Passo
"An exceptional memoir that reminds us—often with surprising
humor—of the richness of life in good times and bad."—David Dosa
MD, author of Making Rounds With Oscar
“Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words made me want to
go hug my mother. It also made me want to go hug Kate Whouley for
her generous, fearless and spot-on recounting of a mother-daughter
relationship during its most tragic yet poignantly beautiful
years.”—Suzanne Strempek Shea, author of Sundays
in America
“With books as her background and music as her guide, Kate Whouley
helps her mother navigate the journey of Alzheimer’s. Recalling her
mother’s impressive past, Whouley tries to reconcile her “new”
mother with the old. Whouley’s straightforward, and at times, very
funny take at her mother’s struggles and her own will strike home
to many readers familiar with the caregiver role. Incorporating her
life-long passion as a flutist, Whouley’s tone and reflection of
music in every aspect of the journey fills the book with hope and,
yes, joy. I hope I would be as graceful and kind if I ever
become my mother’s support system. Full of mother-daughter issues,
identity, grief, loss, along with lots of love, and enduring
friendships, Remembering The Music, Forgetting the Words is perfect
fodder for reading groups!”—Barbara Drummond Mead, Editor of
Reading Group Choices
“Remembering the Music is a dance of a daughter’s spirit as
she releases her mother (and the reader) to another realm.”—Joan
Anderson, Author of A Year By The Sea
“In Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words, Kate Whouley
explores the mysteries of the human heart with wisdom and wit,
giving us a story rich with kindness and comfort.”—Amanda Eyre
Ward, author of Close Your Eyes
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