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Bringing Bubbe Home

7/25/2014

 
Picture"what we would call today, an abused child"
"Have you lost your mind?!" That's what Debra Gordon Zaslow's cousin said when Debra brought her cantankerous 103 year-old grandmother home.

Two different contacts from the PDX Death Cafe community alerted me to Debra's story, Bringing Bubbe Home: A Memoir of Letting Go Though Love and Death.

If I weren't leaving town for another sojourn in Nature's arms, I would definitely attend one of Zaslow's Portland readings: 
  • Tuesday, July 29, at 7:30 pm at St Mark Presbyterian Church (9750 SW Terwilliger Blvd) 
  • Thursday, July 31, at 7:00 pm at Annie Blooms bookstore (7834 SW Capitol Highway).

As you'll see in the clip below, Debra is a professional story-teller. The book promises a riveting account of "volatile caregivers, hormonal teenagers, queen-sized diapers and shadows of the past" in which "the two of them sit soul-to soul in moments of stark tenderness."

As Amber and I face her father's aging (something I was spared by my own father dying young and healthy), I feel passionately that we need stories like this one...

"... the choice to bring death into the home with family, caregivers, and all the ramifications. Zaslow reveals how her grandmother’s shedding of old layers during the dying process created a new bond between them, and how the surfacing of family stories allowed her to see her life in a new context."

The reading, book signing and refreshments are free and open to the public. If you go - or pick up the book, or catch a reading in your own town - tell me what you think.

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click on the image to hear Zaslow talk about "Bringing Bubbe Home"

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