crabbygirl reviewed All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay
Review of 'All Things Consoled' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
an at times brutally honest memoir of her parent's lives and their final months in her (somewhat) care, being placed in a nursing home a short walk away from the author's home. The prose was often beautiful, the honesty was overwhelming; it was like she was finally released from her parents' judgement/feelings and just faced her memories of them head on
it made me think of how my mother has both the privilege and burden to be seen as a single entity. when I age and my kids think of me, it will likely be as a half of a whole - mom & dad - never as a person in my own right.