01918cam a2200277 4500 335190890 ER5 20080217120000.0 070824s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2007035456 9780060875305 HRD $24.95 0060875305 HRD $24.95 DLC DLC BTCTA YDXCP C#P ER5 Casey, Nell/ McCourt. An uncertain inheritance : writers on caring for family / edited by Nell Casey ; foreword by Frank McCourt. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, 2007. xvii, 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references. My father the garbage head / Helen Schulman -- The gift / Sam Lipsyte -- My other husband / Ann Harleman -- Elliott / Jerome Groopman -- Caring across borders: aging parents in another country / Julia Alvarez -- Called them vitamins / Steve Yadzinski -- Ruth / Justine Picardie -- Notes on accepting care / Andrew Solomon -- The baby / Anne Landsman -- Death in slow motion / Eleanor Cooney -- Mourning in Altaic / Ed Bok Lee -- Don't worry. It's not an emergency / Susan Lehman -- In the land of little girls/ Ann Hood -- The vital role / Amanda Fortini -- Planet autism / Scot Sea -- The day the world split open / Abigail Thomas -- The elephant in the room / Stan Mack -- Transformed by a touch / Kerrel McKay -- The animal game; or, how I learned to take careof myself by letting others care for me / Julia Glass. A personal collection of essays on the experience of caring for family through crises of illness and death includes contributions by such writers as Julia Glass, Julia Alvarez, Ann Harleman, Helen Schulman, and Andrew Solomon. Caregivers. Home nursing. Caring. Casey, Nell, 1971-