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Dead mom walking : a memoir of miracle cures and other disasters / Rachel Matlow. by Matlow, Rachel. Viking Canada, 2020. Call #: 362.196994 M433d Subjects Matlow, Rachel.   Matlow, Rachel -- Family.   Mitchell, Elaine, 1943-2015 -- Health.   Mothers and daughters -- Biography.   Children of cancer patients -- Biography.   Cancer -- Patients -- Biography. ISBN:  9780735236301 (pbk.) Description:  310 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Summary:  "A daughter's tender and funny memoir about a mother who defies convention (but doesn't defy cancer). When her mother is diagnosed with cancer, Rachel Matlow is concerned but hopeful. It's stage one, so her mom will get surgery and everything will go back to normal. But growing up in Rachel's family, there was no normal. Elaine, an alternative school teacher and self-help junkie, was never a capital M 'Mommy'--she spent more time meditating than packing lunches--and Rachel, a tomboy who played hockey and chess and felt a profound sense of disappointment in the girls' shoe department, was no ordinary daughter. When Elaine decides to forgo conventional treatment and heal herself naturally, Rachel is forced to ponder whether the very things that made her mom so special--her assertiveness, her non-compliance, her belief in being the author of her own story--are what will ultimately kill her. As the cancer progresses, so does Elaine's conviction in doing things her way. She assembles a dream team of alternative healers, gulps down herbal tinctures with every meal, and talks to her cancer cells. Anxious and confused, Rachel is torn between indulging her pie-in-the-sky pursuits (including a mother-daughter ayahuasca trip) and pleading with the person who's taking her mother away. A daughter's poignant tribute to her eccentric mother and a reckoning with her fatal choices, Dead Mom Walking is a testament to the power of stories--to both delude and delight--and a celebration of family in all its dysfunctional splendor." Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 362.196994 M433d Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 362.196994 M433d Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Nonfiction 362.196994 M433d Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 362.196994 M433d Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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