e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
More Content
More by this author
Munro, Jane (Patricia Jane Southwell)
Subjects
Munro, Jane (Patricia Jane Southwell) -- Marriage.
Amussen, Bob -- Health.
Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Biography.
Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Biography.
Caregivers -- Biography.
Grief -- Biography.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Munro, Jane (Patricia Jane Southwell)
by title:
Open every window : ...
by call number:
362.196831 M968o
Search the Web
Munro, Jane (Patricia Jane Southwell)
Munro, Jane (Patricia Jane Southwell) -- Marriage.
Amussen, Bob -- Health.
Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Biography.
Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Biography.
Caregivers -- Biography.
Grief -- Biography.
MARC Display
Open every window : a memoir /
Jane
Munro
.
by
Munro
,
Jane
(
Patricia
Jane
Southwell
)
Douglas & McIntyre, 2021.
Call #:
362.196831 M968o
Subjects
Munro
,
Jane
(
Patricia
Jane
Southwell
) -- Marriage.
Amussen, Bob -- Health.
Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Biography.
Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Biography.
Caregivers -- Biography.
Grief -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781771622967 (hc)
Description:
256 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"When
Jane
Munro’s husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, the Griffin-award-winning poet must chart a path through the depths of grief, learning to live with loss and to take solace and find freedom in the restorative powers of writing. Open Every Window is a genre-bending prose account of the unravelling of a life -- two lives -- when
Jane
Munro’s husband, Bob, is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Evoking Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, this memoir charts a path through sorrow -- the pain of seeing a partner age and approach death, the exhaustion of caretaking, and the regret in seeing life’s scope narrow and diminish. Writing with courage and love,
Munro
grapples with what it means to care for a husband who is gradually but devastatingly deteriorating while her own identity is eclipsed by a single word -- caregiver. Even a doctor admonishes, “What job could be more important than caring for your husband?” In this portrait of the myriad lives contained in a single life,
Munro
ultimately finds respite in the power of writing, Iyengar yoga and in the rhythms of the moon -- not to heal but to face grief without breaking. A poignant evocation for anyone who has experienced loss, Open Every Window reveals the pain and power inherent in loving and being loved. Framed with short observations of the moon -- from a New Moon in Pune, India to the following New Moon in Vancouver, Canada -- this memoir will entrance with its lyricism and comfort with the writer’s hard-won warmth and wisdom."--Publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
362.196831 M968o
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
362.196831 M968o
Core Collection - Adult
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.