"No other writer has captured the essential truths about illness with as much clarity." -Annie Dillard

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This Room is Yours His mother's memory is failing. On an impulse he does not entirely understand, the narrator of "This Room Is Yours" moves her near his home and finds himself deeply and despairingly involved in her day-to-day life. Mother and son are resistant, both fighting against a kind of shared captivity while trying to save their own independence. Through a series of startling revelations and an exploration of family history, their struggles intersect. "A sensitive meditation on the trials of caring for a deteriorating parent. Clear, insightful, with prose that is always sharp and assured." -Publishers Weekly