*This will cast a spell on fans of Cheryl Strayed and Glennon Doyle. -
Publishers Weekly
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Between Two Kingdoms meets Wild. In this heart wrenching and
inspirational memoir a woman and her mother, who is suffering from
dementia, embark on a road trip through national parks, revisiting the
memories, and the mountains, that made them who they are.
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Steph Jagger lost her mother before she lost her. Her mother, stricken
with an incurable disease that slowly erases all sense of self,
struggles to remember her favorite drink, her favorite song,
and--perhaps most heartbreaking of all--Steph herself. Steph watches as
the woman who loved and raised her slips away before getting the chance
to tell her story, and so Steph makes a promise: her mother will walk it
and she will write it.
Too aware of her mother's waning memory, Steph proposes that the two
take a camping trip out to Montana--which her mother, on the urging of
Steph's father, agrees to embark upon. An adventure full of horseback
riding, hiking, and "tenting" out West quickly turns into one woman's
reflection on childhood, motherhood, personhood--and what it means to
love someone who doesn't quite remember the person she spent her
lifetime becoming.
A staggeringly beautiful examination of how stories are passed down
through generations and from Mother Nature, Everything Left to
Remember brings us the wisdom of who our memories make us under the
constellations of the vast Montana sky.
