Slow Loss - Kelly, Lois

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Résumé :
A masterfully told portrait of the evolution and end of a marriage due to incurable disease. With raw honesty and piercing insight, Slow Loss chronicles a woman's experience as her husband succumbs to Parkinson's and dementia, and she evolves from wife to caregiver to widow and grows in unexpected ways. Kelly's memoir shows us the rush of joy and passion of a marriage's beginning, the contentment and life-as-usual during the middle, the heartbreak of a long, difficult end as she cares for her husband as he slowly loses cognitive and physical abilities, and the uneasy grief of feeling relieved when he dies. Heartbreaking yet laced with dark humor, Slow Loss unveils the realities of caregiving, from being crushed by anger and fear to making hard decisions with surprising outcomes. It is brave, inspirational, and encouraging without a shiff of toxic positivity. Slow Loss speaks to anyone facing the gradual loss of a loved one, offering hard-earned wisdom, a beacon of hope, and so much love. Let Lois Kelly's unflinching account be your lifeline....

Biographie:
Lois Kelly has written notable books on family life (Slow Loss, Be the Noodle) and work life (Rebels at Work). She is a firestarter and champion of people who think differently, work bravely, laugh generously, and live optimistically. Lois is a former corporate organizational and communications strategist and lives in Providence, RI....

Sommaire:
A masterfully told portrait of a marriage: the ordinary joy of it, the long, hard ending of it, and the strange, guilty relief of what comes after. What happens to love when disease slowly takes the person you love? And what happens to you? Lois Kelly didn't set out to answer those questions. She set out to survive them. What she produced is something rarer: a portrait of a marriage in full - the ordinary joy of it, the long, hard ending of it, and the strange, guilty relief of what comes after. Slow Loss is not a book about illness. It is a book about love - how it bends and buckles and sometimes breaks under unbearable pressure, and how a woman rebuilds herself from the wreckage. With raw honesty and dark humor, Kelly writes about anger, envy, loving someone whose eyes you no longer recognize, and becoming someone you never expected to be. There is no toxic positivity here - only truth and hard-earned wisdom offered with enormous generosity. Kirkus Reviews calls it a deeply human story in which love manages to shine through very real pain. Readers will recognize themselves in Kelly's doubts, her fury, her small surrenders, and her hard-won capacity to begin again - whether or not illness has ever touched their lives. Slow Loss is for readers of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air - anyone drawn to writing that refuses to look away, that finds meaning not despite suffering but from within it. It is the story of one marriage, one disease, one woman's transformation. And somehow, unmistakably, it is also yours. Brave. Funny. Devastating. True....