{"product_id":"visiting-polly-walker-blakemore-9798901742334","title":"Visiting","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Polly Walker Blakemore's mother entered hospice with dementia and depression, Blakemore realized their time together would be dwindling. A lifelong diarist, Blakemore also understood she had a chance to record the small, ordinary moments that knit a family and a home together-just as she had when her mother's mother approached the end of her life 30 years earlier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExpecting only a few months with her mother, Blakemore visited her as often as she could. They watched The Pioneer Woman and vet shows, debated the best burgers in town, shuffled between the TV room and the sunroom, counted pills and changed diapers, and wondered whether being ready for God might be as simple as the Barefoot Contessa's 1-2-3 recipe for roasted root vegetables. Nothing much-and yet everything-because presence was the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose months stretched into two and a half years, and \u003cem\u003eVisiting\u003c\/em\u003e is Blakemore's intimate, wry, and clear-eyed account of that time-a portrait of a mother, a daughter, and the cadre of caregivers who accompanied them through a slow but certain decline. Rich in domestic detail and emotional truth, \u003cem\u003eVisiting\u003c\/em\u003e captures the bewilderment, tedium, absurdity, poignancy, urgency, and unexpected grace notes of end-of-life care.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith vivid, keenly observed prose, Blakemore illuminates what it means to be present with someone whose light is fragmenting and fading-and why such days, small as they seem, become the ones we value most.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Polly Walker Blakemore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798901742334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Atmosphere Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d","brand":"Polly Walker Blakemore","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48588483002623,"sku":"9798901742334","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/visiting-polly-walker-blakemore-9798901742334","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}