Memoir
Date Published: April 22nd
Publisher: Acorn Publishing
When memory fades, what remains?
Sarah Vosburgh has often felt misunderstood by her mother, a woman who lived a
quintessential suburban life. But when her mother is diagnosed with
Alzheimer’s, Sarah’s world unravels, and she must confront a
disease that will only worsen. As roles reverse between mother and daughter,
Sarah faces the guilt of making decisions she hopes are the right ones while
also carrying the grief of losing her mom bit by bit everyday. She navigates a
labyrinth of health services amid the heartbreaking, and at times darkly
humorous, realities of caregiving.
There are the white lies and midnight phone calls, the misbuttoned blouses,
and the second slice of chocolate pie that tastes just as good as it did the
first time. And then there’s the quiet awe at the persistence of
connection even when language falters and names are forgotten.
Told in finely wrought prose and lyrical fragments of memory, Who Will
Name the Bees? is a daughter's unflinching love letter to the flawed, fierce,
and unforgettable woman who raised her.
Review
This was a quietly powerful memoir that highlights Sarah Church Vosburgh’s ability to turn personal experience into something universally relatable.
The author's writing is soft and captures her grief and growth through her experiences.
While the tone is gentle, the themes are often harder to read about but it is what makes it meaningful.
About the Author
It was never in Sarah Vosburgh’s plan to be an author or to write a
memoir. As a busy mom, wife, and psychologist, she always saw her life as full
(sometimes overfull). But in the dark of night, memories knocked on her brain,
compelling her to commit them first to paper, then to bits and bytes.
Sarah
is a member of the International Memoir Writers Association and San Diego
Writers, Ink. Her work has been published in A Year in Ink and numerous
volumes of Shaking the Tree: brazen. short. memoir. A native New Englander,
she now lives in San Diego with her husband, her daughter, her granddog, and a
most extraordinary feline.
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