No More Words
A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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In 1999 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the famed aviator and author, moved from her home in Connecticut to the farm in Vermont where her daughter, Reeve, and Reeve's family live. Mrs. Lindbergh was in her nineties and had been rendered nearly speechless years earlier by a series of small strokes that also left her frail and dependent on others for her care. As an accomplished author who had learned to write in part by reading her mother's many books, Reeve was deeply saddened and frustrated by her inability to communicate with her mother, a woman long recognized in her family and throughout the world as a gifted communicator. No More Words is a moving and compassionate memoir of the final seventeen months of Reeve's mother's life. Reeve writes with great sensitivity and sympathy for her mother's plight, while also analyzing her own conflicting feelings. Anyone who has had to care for an elderly parent disabled by Alzheimer's or stroke will understand immediately the heartache and anguish Reeve suffered and will find comfort in her story.
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Diary turned book of the daughter of the famous Lindbergh aviators couple.
First and foremost, the book gives the feeling that it provided relief to the author, to be able to put her thoughts on the paper and make sense out of them. It truly does that and it provides the reader with razor sharp insight into the most intimate parts of life when one is caring for her mother.
It does not shy away from mentioning both good and bad things about the present, past or future situations. If anything, I'll remember how honest this book/diary felt. Many criticize this book (or the author, rather) for putting a lot of negative and family-related stuff for everyone to see. But it's this openness that makes this book so much more valuable.
The writing style is not as natural as her mother's, but it certainly is very pleasant to read. The talent definitely runs in the family.
This book also helped me understand what it feels like not only to care for people with broken mind, but also how to live with them and make their end-of-life bearable for them and everyone around them. For this, the author deserves much respect.
I would highly recommend this book for anyone interested either in the Lindbergh family or in understanding their own thoughts when caring for a person that is partly in the heaven with their mind and partly still on the Earth.
