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Memory Eaters

Elizabeth Kadetsky
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1980's New York
1980s cultural history
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addiction recovery
Alzheimer's journey
artistic memory
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autobiographical essays
caregiving and grief
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childhood recollections
compassionate caregiving
compassionate remembrance
coping with loss
creative nonfiction
daughter's perspective
dealing with aging parents
dementia narrative
emotional honesty
emotional inheritance
emotional resilience
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family archives
family dysfunction
family memoir
family psychology
family secrets
fashion industry memoir
female perspective
fragmented consciousness
fragmented storytelling
generational memory
generational wounds
healing from trauma
human fragility
inherited pain
intergenerational trauma
literary nonfiction
loss of self
lost photographs
lyrical storytelling
memoir of illness
memory
memory and identity
memory loss
mental decline narrative
mental health awareness
mother's decline
mother-daughter relationship
New York City in the 1970s
nostalgia and identity
personal reflection
poetic prose
portrait of a mother
post-traumatic stress
psychological memoir
reclaiming the past
reconstructing the past
reflections on love and loss
remembering and forgetting
resilience through writing
searching for meaning
searching for wholeness
Seventh Avenue modeling
survival through storytelling
therapy and self-discovery
trauma and healing
truth and recollection
urban memoryscape
women writers
women's narratives

Product details

  • ISBN 9781625345028
  • Weight: 280g
  • Dimensions: 139 x 213mm
  • Publication Date: 27 Mar 2020
  • Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description
On autopsy, the brain of an Alzheimer's patient can weigh as little as 30 percent of a healthy brain. The tissue grows porous. It is a sieve through which the past slips.

As her mother loses her grasp on their shared history, Elizabeth Kadetsky sifts through boxes of the snapshots, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and notebooks that remain, hoping to uncover the memories that her mother is actively losing as her dementia progresses. These remnants offer the false yet beguiling suggestion that the past is easy to reconstruct -- easy to hold.

At turns lyrical, poignant, and alluring, The Memory Eaters tells the story of a family's cyclical and intergenerational incidents of trauma, secret-keeping, and forgetting in the context of 1970s and 1980s New York City. Moving from her parents' divorce to her mother's career as a Seventh Avenue fashion model and from her sister's addiction and homelessness to her own experiences with therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder, Kadetsky takes readers on a spiraling trip through memory, consciousness fractured by addiction and dementia, and a compulsion for the past salved by nostalgia.
About Elizabeth Kadetsky
Elizabeth Kadetsky is author of the memoir First There Is a Mountain, the short story collection The Poison that Purifies You, and the novella On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World. A professor of creative writing at Penn State and nonfiction editor at the New England Review, she is the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Program, MacDowell Colony, and Vermont Studio Center.

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