Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words: Travels with Mom in the Land of Dementia

Author: Kate WhouleyPublisher: Beacon PressPaperback:ISBN 10: 080700331XISBN 13: 978-0807003312Hardcover:ISBN 10: 0807003190ISBN 13: 978-0807003190Winner of the 2012 New England Book Award for Non Fiction   Kate Whouley is a smart, single woman who faces life head-on. Her mother, Anne, is a strong-minded accidental feminist with a weakness for unreliable men. Their complicated relationship isn't simplified when Anne exhibits symptoms of organic memory loss. As Kate becomes her mother's advocate and protector, Kate will discover that the demon we call Alzheimer's is also an unlikely teacher--and healer. A contemporary mother-daughter story with universal appeal, Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words, is written with the same "good humor and thoughtful humanity" that author Anna Quindlen admired in the  Whouley's first memoir, Cottage for Sale, Must Be Moved. Named to the American Library Association's Best of the Best list for 2012, Remembering the Music, in the words of novelist