Feeding My Mother (HCU)

Hardcover – Used

Based on her hugely popular Facebook posts and Instagram photos, Feeding My Motheris a frank, funny, inspirational and piercingly honest account of the transformation in Jann Ardens life that has turned her into the primary parent to her mom, who is in the grip of Alzheimers.

Jann Arden moved in to a house just across the way from her parents in rural Alberta to be close to them but also so they could be her refuge from the demands of the music business and a performing career. Funny how time works. Since her dad died in 2015, Jann cooks for her mom five or six times a week. Her mom finds comfort in her daughters kitchen, not just in the delicious food but also just sitting with her as she cooks. And Jann finds some peace in caring for her mom, even as her mom slowly becomes a stranger. If you told me two years ago that Id be here, Jann writes, I wouldnt have believed it. And yet we still fall into so much laughter, feel so much insane gladness and joy. Its such a contrast from one minute to the next and it teaches me constantly: it makes me stronger and more humble and more empathetic and caring and kind.

The many people who are dealing with a loved one who is losing it will find inspiration and strength in Janns wholehearted, loving response and her totally Jann take on the upside-down world of a daughter mothering her mother. Feeding My Mother is one heck of an affirmation that life just keeps on keeping on, and a wonderful example of how you have to roll with it.