{"product_id":"looking-back-moving-forward-candace-wayne-9781977268464","title":"Looking Back, Moving Forward - Bittersweet: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen lawyer, wife and mother Candace Wayne's beloved husband John is diagnosed with Lewy Bodies Dementia, she finally has a name for the small changes she's born witness to for years. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this essay collection, Candace offers snapshots of the years leading up to John's death, and those that unfold afterward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTask-oriented and responsible, Candace is efficient in her role as caretaker, learning how to best support a husband who must come to terms with his slow-creeping loss of self-sufficiency. Meanwhile, Candace's daughters have their own experience with their father's changes, and the whole family must bend without breaking to accommodate his loss. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns raw and contemplative, Candace's essays depict family road trips, restaurant outings, and doctors appointments, and finally John's last breaths. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuch like Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, this collection is true to the experience of mourning, taking the reader through the author's real-time experiences before revisiting episodes through the lens of retrospect. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUltimately, the author's sadness makes way for reluctant optimism as Candace awakens to the bittersweet realization that the person her husband's death caused her to become is a woman she's grateful to know.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Candace Wayne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1977268463\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781977268464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Outskirts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d","brand":"Candace Wayne","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45482426237183,"sku":"9781977268464","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6f5dd1bb-cb68-44ab-b6e4-abf603cdb126.jpg?v=1715998480","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/looking-back-moving-forward-candace-wayne-9781977268464","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}