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Everything left to remember : my mother, our memories, and a journey through the Rocky Mountains / Steph Jagger.

by Jagger, Steph, author.

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New York : Flatiron Books, 2022.

Jagger, Steph -- Family.

Jagger, Steph -- Travel -- Montana.

Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Care.

Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.

Mothers and daughters -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.

Yellowstone National Park.

Glacier National Park (Mont.)

Grand Teton National Park (Wyo.)

Vancouver (B.C.) -- Biography.

9781250261830 (hardcover)

125026183X (hardcover)

viii, 257 pages ; 22 cm

Introduction -- Picking up leaves -- A family constellation -- The myth of an ebb tide -- As above, so below -- Pray, Montana -- Little white lies -- A thousand miles of wilderness -- All the way around -- Gossamer wings -- The great divide -- Pencil shavings and juniper berries -- Heartwood -- The difference between erosion and erasure -- Borrowed landscapes -- A flag of surrender -- A place called wisdom -- The movement of stone -- Stardust -- My mother tongue -- The path toward remembrance -- With Earth as my witness -- Epilogue -- Standing on the shore.

"In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, embark on a road trip through national parks, revisiting the memories, and the mountains, that made them who they are. 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"--Provided by publisher.

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