mattresses
finding rosa a mother with alzheimers a daughter in search of the past
when her mother rosa begins to show signs of dementia caterina edwards embarks on a myriad of journeys geographical intellectual emotional that turn out to be part of one journey a search for the meaning of the past and of home . during the four years she cares for rosa edwards must navigate between conflicting responsibilities to self family and work while dealing with her mothers confusion hostility paranoia and fear and her own physical and emotional exhaustion . as rosa loses her memory and her self edwards travels to istria now part of croatia where she discovers a suppressed history of ethnic cleansing loss and displacement that altered rosas life course irrevocably . this frank memoir limns a multifaceted history of two women in crisis one struggling to maintain a sense of self against the demands of disease and the weight of a dark past the other seeking understanding and solace in the face of something that resists both .