Connie Kish is more to be admired than pitied after she’s beset by Alzheimer’s. Rarely the victim, she hangs onto her identity as a wryly intelligent woman, age forty-eight, with a lively libido. She’s caregiver to her overwrought husband, Max, taking him under her wing when it should be the other way round. They’re awash in Alzheimer’s, struggling to stay afloat in this playful and superbly written love story.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781771872072
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.M4514
- LCCN Item number
- M36 2020eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (257 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00082527 (OCoLC)1159432111 (CaOOCEL)460229
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Cover Page 1
- Title Page 4
- Copyright Page 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 8
- One 10
- 1. Yarn Spinning 11
- 2. A Promise of Remission 16
- 3. Trees 26
- 4. Oh Me of Little Faith 40
- 5. Dickering With Dementia 43
- 6. Out and About In the Neighbourhood 53
- 7. Drawn-Out Days 58
- 8. A Lazy Sunday 65
- 9. Décolletage to die for 74
- 10. Trusty John, A.K.A. John the True 80
- 11. Hiccups and Earthquakes 84
- 12. Moving Away 89
- 13. Kish Doesn’t Live Here Anymore 96
- 14. A Blessing In Disguise 99
- 15. A Not-So-Big Kahuna 103
- 16. Favourite Wives 108
- 17. Saving Nellie’s Whiskers 122
- 18. Flat Out Passively Resisting 125
- 19. Building Up Scar Tissue 129
- 20. Buying Booze By the Bottle 131
- 21. Don’t Forget the Baking Soda 136
- 22. Miss Me But Let Me Go 139
- 23. Gourmet Ice Cream Sundaes 145
- 24. Happy Hobbling 150
- Two 158
- 25. Divorce Lite, a Friendly Parting of the Ways 159
- 26. Lawyering Up, Lawyering Down 171
- 27. Catching Up With the Scuttlebutt 180
- 28. The Soaps 184
- 29. Groucho, You Naughty Boy! 190
- 30. The Ubiquitous Arturo Hebb 193
- 31. Divorce Ducks All In a Row 197
- 32. Togetherness In Separate Beds 206
- 33. Free Spirits 209
- 34. Lady Baltimore Travelling Incognito 213
- 35. Scoring Brownie Points 218
- 36. Humbled and Humiliated 223
- 37. A Toast to Loneliness 227
- 38. A Final Decree On Divorcing Me 233
- 39. A Tipping Point 244
- 40. A Space Nearby 246
- 41. Still the Storyteller 253
- Acknowledgements 259
