The House on Beartown Road.THE HOUSE ON BEARTOWN ROAD. Elizabeth Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. . 2003/2004. Read by Bernadette Dunne. 6 tapes. 7 hrs. Blackstone Audiobooks. 0-7861-2627-2. $44.95. Vinyl; content, author notes. A This is a dynamically written account of a year during which a 40-something new mother undertakes to raise her infant daughter and take care of her Alzheimer's-afflicted father in an old creaky creak·y adj. creak·i·er, creak·i·est 1. Tending to creak. 2. Shaky or infirm, as with age; decrepit: creaky knee joints; a creaky regime. farmhouse in upper New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of State. Her artist husband, 15 years her junior, walks out on the family early in the book. Cohen, a journalist by profession, keeps the narrative lively, interspersing her frustration, anger, and fear with tales of kind neighbors and insights into the mirror processes of learning and forgetting. The parallels are heart wrenching: Cohen's father, a retired professor of labor relations, loses words that her daughter eagerly "picks up" and acquires. As Alzheimer's steals the old man's dignity, we share Cohen's panic. There are only brief respites for the caregiver care·giv·er n. 1. An individual, such as a physician, nurse, or social worker, who assists in the identification, prevention, or treatment of an illness or disability. 2. , and her ultimate sense of accomplishment is hard won. A nuanced and realistic introduction to problems an increasing number of American families American Family is a photographic artwork exhibition by Renée Cox. See also
Dunne's reading is smooth and entertaining; her voice matches the vivid journalistic jour·nal·is·tic adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of journalism or journalists. jour  nal·is style of the text.
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