The Long Hello the Other Side of Alzheimer's

Borrie, Cathie

ISBN 10: 0981378609 / ISBN 13: 9780981378602

Published by NIGHTWING PRESS, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Long Hello the Other Side of Alzheimer's
• Publisher: NIGHTWING PRESS
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0981378609
• ISBN 13: 9780981378602
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

A paean of redemptive beauty, The Long Hello cherishes the bond between mothers and daughters, and creates a startling sea change in society's perception of those journeying through Alzheimer's. It is also a book for those interested in the universal themes of family, loss, divorce, and the power of love to find meaning in suffering .
Cathie Borrie is an author, performer and artistic director for concerts based upon text from THE LONG HELLO, which incorporate dance and film. She is accompanied by award winning actor PATTI ALLAN and ARIEL BARNES, principal cellist of The Vancouver Opera and Vancouver Symphony.

THE LONG HELLO: A penetrating investigation into the mysteries of the mind and how it recoils and resurrects, revokes and reveals . . .

In this shimmering jewel of a memoir, The Long Hello, author Cathie Borrie traverses rich terrain as she unearths the hidden and often painful treasures of a life well lived: the shadows and joys of childhood, the relationships that leave us both illuminated and bereft, the love, longing and loss that surge to the fore when a parent is ailing.

Memory, and the losing of it, serves as a powerful guide, and Borrie follows her mother's eccentric and poetic lead into the past, transformed by the unexpected brilliance of the elder woman's shifting dementia mind.

About the Author

Cathie Borrie (a.k.a. Cath, CB, Cat) has degrees in health (2) and law (1), but nothing prepared her for the seven years she spent caring for her mother who had Alzheimer's & Parkinson's. Along this heartbreaking and unexpectedly fascinating journey, she discovered that recording conversations with her mother, writing a memoir, and learning to ballroom dance were ways to tell both her and her mother's story.

Excerpts from The Long Hello were shortlisted three times in the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Literary Awards, Canada's most notable writing competition for unpublished work. She lives high up over the Vancouver harbor where she can keep an eye on the comings and goings of freighters and tugboats, and the vagaries of the sea, the sea, the sea.

Currently Cathie performs in and directs concerts based on text form the memoir,, accompanied by award winning actor PATTI ALLAN and ARIEL BARNES, principal cellist of The Vancouver Symphony and Vancouver Opera.