Stammered Songbook : A Mother's Book of Hours (Paperback)

from WorldInColour

Erwin Mortier, a Belgian writer, wrote 'Gestameld liedboek : Moedergetijden' in an attempt to capture the effects of Alzheimer's on his mother and his family. Recreating his youth and the life of his mother through snippets of memories, he tries to give his mother a fitting farewell.And did he su...

from BrandieC

I loved this sad but beautiful book written by Erwin Mortier to chronicle his mother's decline from Alzheimer's and its effect on his father and himself. Mortier is a Flemish poet, and Stammered Songbook is a prose poem more than a memoir. The publisher, in its description, provides a hint of the...

from Britt84

Mortier describes his mother's struggle with dementia, and his family's attempts to deal with this. In short chapters we are given short scenes of the life of a patient with dementia. We see the struggles to make sense of the world, the confusion and fear, but also the good moments. We also see t...

from WorldInColour

Erwin Mortier, a Belgian writer, wrote 'Gestameld liedboek : Moedergetijden' in an attempt to capture the effects of Alzheimer's on his mother and his family. Recreating his youth and the life of his mother through snippets of memories, he tries to give his mother a fitting farewell.And did he su...

from BrandieC

I loved this sad but beautiful book written by Erwin Mortier to chronicle his mother's decline from Alzheimer's and its effect on his father and himself. Mortier is a Flemish poet, and Stammered Songbook is a prose poem more than a memoir. The publisher, in its description, provides a hint of the...