Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye. This week, all three came from this reading list about motherhood and parents.
What Dementia Teaches Us About Love by Nicci Gerrard
Summary: After her own father’s death from dementia, author Nicci Gerrard set out to explore the illness that now touches millions of us, yet which we still struggle to speak about. What does dementia mean, for those who live with it, and those who care for them?
I used to say that we are made of our memories, but what happens when memories are lost?
I’m thinking: Yes.
When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back by Naja Marie Aidt
Summary: In 2015, Aidt’s 25-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident. Her memoir is an attempt to formulate a vocabulary to express the deepest kind of pain, and articulates her greatest fear: to forget.
I’m thinking: Yes.
Things Nobody Knows But Me by Amra Pajalić
Summary: When she is four years old Amra Pajalić realises that her mother is different. Fatima is loving but sometimes hears strange voices that tell her to do bizarre things. It is not until she is sixteen that Amra learns the name for the malady that has dogged her mother and affected her own life: bipolar disorder.
I’m thinking: Maybe.