Light falls on everything : a daughter's memoir of caregiving, grief, and possibility / Rebecca McClanahan

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McClanahan, Rebecca, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McClanahan, Rebecca--Family.

McClanahan, Rebecca.

Aging parents--Care--North Carolina--Anecdotes.

Aging parents.

Caregivers--Family relationships--North Carolina.

Caregivers.

Caregivers' writings, American--North Carolina.

Caregivers' writings, American.

Aging parents--Care.

Caregivers--Family relationships.

North Carolina.

Genre:

Anecdotes

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2026]

Summary:

"My father’s heart, and my mother’s, can still break. In this most essential way, they are still themselves. They are still here. To stay together until the end was the deepest wish of Rebecca McClanahan’s elderly, frail parents. So when the two of them could no longer care for themselves, Rebecca and her siblings moved them from Indiana to North Carolina, where she and her husband assumed the roles of “first responders” with support from the extended family. Over the course of her parents' final years, Rebecca discovers that the landscape of dementia isn’t entirely bleak if we can hold on long enough to rediscover in our loved ones the essential selves we feared were lost. Light Falls on Everything takes us inside the intimate rooms of long-term caregiving, where exhaustion, confusion, heartbreak, and grief can shadow the most ordinary days. Still, light flickers in even the darkest corners, revealing moments of tenderness, laughter, absurdity, surprise, and unrelenting love. Emotionally gripping and unstintingly honest, this memoir invites us to reflect on the timeless nature of love and loss and, with it, the unexpected lessons of caregiving: how to move forward into our own uncertain futures, accept grief as a longtime companion, and approach death with some measure of grace"-- JSTOR

Notes:

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed April 3, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: McClanahan, Rebecca Light falls on everything :

ISBN:

9781469693255

1469693259

9781469693248

1469693240

9781469693224

1469693224

9781469693231

1469693232

OCLC:

1572418281

Publisher Number:

CIPO000336987

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license