They Left Us Everything They Left Us Everything

They Left Us Everything

A Memoir

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Publisher Description

Winner of the 2015 RBC Taylor Prize
Winner of the 2016 Forest of Reading® Evergreen Award™ 

After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents—first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year-old mother—author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers experience conflicted feelings of grief and relief when their mother, the surviving parent, dies. Now they must empty and sell the beloved family home, which hasn’t been de-cluttered in more than half a century. Twenty-three rooms bulge with history, antiques, and oxygen tanks. Plum remembers her loving but difficult parents who could not have been more different: the British father, a handsome, disciplined patriarch who nonetheless could not control his opinionated, extroverted Southern-belle wife who loved tennis and gin gimlets. The task consumes her, becoming more rewarding than she ever imagined. Items from childhood trigger memories of her eccentric family growing up in a small town on the shores of Lake Ontario in the 1950s and 60s. But unearthing new facts about her parents helps her reconcile those relationships with a more accepting perspective about who they were and what they valued.
They Left Us Everything is a funny, touching memoir about the importance of preserving family history to make sense of the past and nurturing family bonds to safeguard the future.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2014
March 18
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
288
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Canada
SELLER
Penguin Random House Canada
SIZE
3.3
MB

Customer Reviews

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They Left us Everything.

I so enjoyed this book. Read it for my book club next week. Can’t wait to take part in our discussion and hear everyone’s thoughts.

Schooney++ ,

They left us everything

Loved it. So descriptive and lovingly told story

Dusty willow ,

They Left Us Everything

What a delightful read

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