Ladysitting
My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century
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Lorene Cary
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Lorene Cary
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Lorene Cary's grandmother moves in, and everything changes: day-to-day life, family relationships, the Nana she knew - even their shared past.
From cherished memories of weekends she spent as a child with her indulgent Nana to the reality of the year she spent "ladysitting" her now frail grandmother, Lorene Cary journeys through stories of their time together and five generations of their African American family. Brilliantly weaving a narrative of her relationship with Nana - a fierce, stubborn, and independent woman, who managed a business until she was 100 - Cary looks at Nana's impulse to control people and fate, from the early death of her mother and oppression in the Jim Crow South to living on her own in her New Jersey home.
Cary knew there might be some reckonings to come. Nana was a force: Her obstinacy could come out in unanticipated ways-secretly getting a driver's license to show up her husband, carrying on a longtime feud with Cary's father. But Nana could also be devoted: to Nana's father, to Black causes, and - Cary had thought - to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Facing the inevitable end raises tensions, with Cary drawing on her spirituality and Nana consoling herself with late-night sweets. When Nana doubts Cary's dedication, Cary must go deeper into understanding this complicated woman.
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Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince. With no children of their own, the 40-plus children who live, play, and go to school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife, Janine. But at age five, Chika is suddenly diagnosed with something a doctor there says "no one in Haiti can help you with."
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BUY READ AND RECOMMEND THIS BOOK
- By The Birds. on 11-05-19
By: Mitch Albom
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The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
- A Novel
- By: Juliet Grames
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 16 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella’s childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents - moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella’s own mother is convinced that her daughter is cursed or haunted. When the Fortunas emigrate to America on the cusp of World War II, Stella and her sister, Tina, must come of age side by side in a hostile new world with strict expectations for each of them.
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Misogyny at its worst
- By brenda on 01-15-20
By: Juliet Grames
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Little Matches
- A Memoir of Finding Light in the Dark
- By: Maryanne O'Hara
- Narrated by: Maryanne O'Hara
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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When their only child was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) at the age of two, Maryanne O'Hara and her husband were told that Caitlin could live a long life or be dead in a matter of months. Thirty-one years later, Caitlin lost her battle with this devastating disease following an excruciating two-year wait on the transplant list and a last-minute race to locate a pair of healthy lungs. The sudden spiral of events left Maryanne in an existential crisis, searching to find an answer to the eternal question: Why we are here?
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I don't know who needs to read it...
- By H. Hill on 04-18-23
By: Maryanne O'Hara
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Amazing Grace
- The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
- By: Jonathan Kozol
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The children we meet through the deepening friendships that evolve between Janathan Kozol and their families defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented on TV and in newspapers. Tender, generous, and often religiously devout, they speak with painful clarity about the poverty and racial isolation that have wounded but not hardened them. "It's not like being in a jail," says 15-year-old Isabel. "It's more like being hidden."
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The Roots of Change are in Education
- By T. C. Pile on 06-05-20
By: Jonathan Kozol
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The Hour I First Believed
- A Novel
- By: Wally Lamb
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 25 hrs and 9 mins
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When high-school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she survives. But when Caelum and Maureen flee to an illusion of safety on the Quirk family's Connecticut farm, they discover that the effects of chaos are not easily put right.
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excellent all around yarn
- By G. on 01-10-09
By: Wally Lamb
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The Yellow House
- By: Sarah M. Broom
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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In 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant - the postwar optimism seemed assured. A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities.
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Great book. I wish the pictures had been included.
- By Lindsay on 02-28-20
By: Sarah M. Broom
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- Kindle Customer
- 12-11-23
Hits Close To Home
The author's care of her Nana was eerily similar to what I went through with my grandmother, so I found this book sad but also really comforting. And I've never felt so seen or understood as I did whenever checking the water level on Nana's steam boiler was mentioned in a chapter.
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- Melody B. Harrop
- 05-03-22
memoir resonates
The memoir will resonate to anyone who has cared for an elder. The story is told with humor and love. The author does an excellent job of conveying her Nanna's voice.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-16-19
a must read for anyone who's cared for a loved one
Ms. Carey so perfectly captures the love and frustration, absurdities, pain, and humor of caring for an aging loved one through their final time on earth. She's also a very fine narrator who's lovely voice graces her writing with charm and depth.
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- Renee Settles-Bean
- 02-26-20
Awesome
Great book! Captures the life cycle brilliantly! Thanks for sharing your family with us! I hated for it to end!
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- Blithe Chick
- 09-08-22
Simply beautiful
I loved this book. It reminded me of the journey that I took with my “Mommom” as she entered her 80s. We had a loving, caring relationship that I too came to see differently in the end;not bad or good but more realistically. I enjoyed Lorene’s humor. The book is well written.
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- Ashley Beaman
- 07-12-23
Easily my favorite listen this year!
Ladysitting is an incredible memoir full of raw emotion tucked into everyday moments caring for a loved one as they age and pass. Lorene Cary is gifted at explaining these realities in a way everyone can relate to. Lorene is also an incredible narrator of her own work! I loved how her faith in God, tried and true, is weaved throughout her story.
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- thomaar
- 07-07-23
Story Drug Out A Bit
it was a bit of a drag for me. But was interesting explaining the end of life process and struggle
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