When her mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, the author returns to letters they'd exchanged years before, to foster her mother's engagement with reading and thinking. Bird-bent Grass uses excerpts from their correspondence to explore memory, illness, friendship, conflict, cross-cultural communication, and letters' timeless power.
- | Author: Kathleen Venema
- | Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- | Publication Date: Apr 18, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 354 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1771122900
- | ISBN-13: 9781771122900