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When Jane Munro's husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, the Griffin-award-winning poet must chart a path through the depths of grief, learning to live with loss and to take solace and find freedom in the restorative powers of writing.
Open Every Window is a genre-bending prose account of the unravelling of a lifetwo liveswhen Jane Munro's husband, Bob, is diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Evoking Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, this memoir charts a path through sorrowthe pain of seeing a partner age and approach death, the exhaustion of caretaking, and the regret in seeing life's scope narrow and diminish.
Writing with courage and love, Munro grapples with what it means to care for a husband who is gradually but devastatingly deteriorating while her own identity is eclipsed by a single wordcaregiver. Even a doctor admonishes, "What job could be more important than caring for your husband?"
In this portrait of the myriad lives contained in a single life, Munro ultimately finds respite in the power of writing, Iyengar yoga and in the rhythms of the moonnot to heal but to face grief without breaking.
A poignant evocation for anyone who has experienced loss, Open Every Window reveals the pain and power inherent in loving and being loved. Framed with short observations of the moonfrom a New Moon in Pune, India to the following New Moon in Vancouver, Canadathis memoir will entrance with its lyricism and comfort with the writer's hard-won warmth and wisdom.
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