The Night Garden: Of My Mother

When her 86-year-old mother falls and breaks her hip, Sandra Tyler is 42, with a nursing infant...
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Author: Sandra Tyler
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The Night Garden: Of My Mother by Tyler, Sandra

The Night Garden: Of My Mother

$87.58

The Night Garden: Of My Mother

$87.58
Author: Sandra Tyler
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

When her 86-year-old mother falls and breaks her hip, Sandra Tyler is 42, with a nursing infant and precocious toddler. Tyler's mother insists on hiring her own caregivers-a motley patchwork of lost souls, including the too-friendly who think Scrabble is a good idea. But when she has a near-fatal fall, it is the author who hires a live-in aide, Chandice, who moves into her mother's house as if it were her own, with her KitchenAid mixer, bake pans, and apple-and-kale concoctions. Where should Tyler's allegiance lie when her mother threatens to fire Chandice for overloading the washing machine? At what cost to their relationship should she no longer defer to her mother's staunch guidance?


As her mother's dementia worsens, Chandice warns the author about other daughters "gone crazy" watching their mothers become unrecognizable-after her mother's death, the author is admitted to a psychiatric ward, where she sleeps the "sleep of the dying," as her mother slept in her final weeks. But in the timelessness of this ward, she can wonder: was her closeness with her mother not of best friends, but something inherent in their dispositions as a writer and artist-in that compulsion to be seen and heard? With empathy and affectionate comedy, The Night Garden candidly explores what it means for a daughter to have her focus fractured by conflicting responsibilities while still seeking, above all else, her mother's approval, protection and love



Author: Sandra Tyler
Publisher: Pierian Springs Press
Published: 10/23/2024
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781953136770


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Foreword 08/14/2024

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