Mothering Mother

An unflinchingly honest look at family caregiving.

 Carol D. O'Dell

Trade Paper 6x9” | Pages 208 | Non-Fiction/Care Giving/ Body/Mind/Spirit/Relationship/Elder Care/Alzheimer’s/Parkinson’s
US$ 12.95 / CDN$ 13.95 | ISBN 9781601640468

• “O’Dell portrays the experience of looking after a mother suffering from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s with brutal honesty and refreshing grace.” —Booklist 

Carol O’Dell not only shows how to be a family caregiver, she uses daily in-the-room real life experiences to show the true level of commitment required. With over 50 million Americans acting as family caregivers of adult dependents, Mothering Mother offers inspiration and hope.

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•  “O’Dell knows this emotional journey well.” —Melissa Long, CNN
• “Carol O’Dell is my new hero ... Told in vignettes instead of a linear fashion, O’Dell tells in brutal honesty the horrors and pleasures of exactly what one shoulders when saying, ‘Come live with us; I’ll take care of you.’” —Casa Publishing
• “Beautiful, told with humor...and much love.”—Booklist
• “Mothering Mother documents the daily love, doubts, ambivalence, guilt, grief, and small triumphs that accompany Carol on her almost three-year journey. Those of us in the Baby-boomer generation will resonate with the emotional roller coaster that many of us have or are currently experiencing, or fear having to face with our own aging parents. Mothering Mother is a gauge by which we can measure the strength of our own inner resources as we search for the best option in caring for our elders in their last years.”—Barry Baines, Hospice Director for the Twin Cities
• "So many of the experiences she [Carol] and her mother shared in Mothering Mother reflect the caregiving and role reversals and were so real, I had flashbacks. I laughed, I smiled and shuddered reading this book. Her approach, sense of humor and ability to tell the whole truth will make you love it too. O’Dell has captured the essence of every Baby Boomer’s struggle to parent our parents.”—Judy H. Wright, Missoula Demonstration Project, Author of over 20 books
  

About the Author — Carol D. O'Dell
 
Carol D. O’Dell teaches creative writing to children and adults and is published in Chicken Soup Celebrates Sisters, Atlanta Magazine, Storyteller Magazine, and numerous other prestigious publications. She has appeared on CNN and FOX TV and is a popular speaker on family caregiving.