![]() ![]() This is the best memoir I've read in years."- Judith Minthorn Stacy, author of Maggie Sweet, winner of the Carolina Novel Award"The book is about. She writes of grief and loss with heart wrenching honesty but without sentimentality then adds humor in such unexpected places I found myself laughing and crying all on the same page. ![]() ![]() This memoir was a finalist in the Next Generation Independent Book Awards, the world's largest not-for-profit independent book awards.Praise for Motherhood: Lost and Found include:"Ann Campanella's Motherhood: Lost and Found is a chronicle of family tragedy and triumph told in some of the most truly lyrical writing you'll ever encounter. Her graceful, exacting language rises above the grief of infertility and the struggle to care for aging parents, connecting the reader ultimately to the heartbeat and resilience of the human experience. The voice in Ann's memoir has been called constant and abiding, her imagery indelible. The author's devotion to her family and her horse Crimson sustain her as her mother's illness progresses and her own window of potential motherhood begins to close. Ann's foundation is shaken when she experiences multiple miscarriages at the same time her mother spirals into Alzheimer's. At age 33, award-winning author and poet Ann Campanella returns to her home state of North Carolina ready to build a horse farm and start a family. ![]() Motherhood: Lost and Found takes the reader on a journey where Alzheimer's disease and infertility intersect. ![]()
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