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Barbara Drake-Vera
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Melted Away: A Memoir of Climate Change and Caregiving in Peru
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Excerpt from Melted Away
Chapter 2: The Diagnosis (opening)
Pigeons
Miraflores, Lima, Peru, January 2011
It was a warm Sunday afternoon in early January—not midwinter, but summer, in Peru—when I began dreaming of blue ice again.
Jorge and I were sprawled on opposite ends of the couch, his long, tanned legs intertwined with mine, our black Lab, Lola, snoring beside us on the tiled floor, as fat gray pigeons—cuculís, in Peruvia Read more of this blog post »
Pigeons
Miraflores, Lima, Peru, January 2011
It was a warm Sunday afternoon in early January—not midwinter, but summer, in Peru—when I began dreaming of blue ice again.
Jorge and I were sprawled on opposite ends of the couch, his long, tanned legs intertwined with mine, our black Lab, Lola, snoring beside us on the tiled floor, as fat gray pigeons—cuculís, in Peruvia Read more of this blog post »
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Melted Away: A Memoir of Climate Change and Caregiving in Peru:
"Melted Away is a stunning, intimate memoir that binds personal grief to planetary loss with rare grace. As Alzheimer’s erases a difficult father and Andean glaciers disappear, Barbara Drake Vera reclaims the voice she once silenced and discovers heal"
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"I heard the author speak at Word of South in Tallahassee, FL and was fascinated by the combination of environmental and personal memoir writing she presented us with. The book was much more than I expected - much deeper and engaging, in fact, than he"
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Wake up and smell the cider: Love, danger and betrayal intermingle in this suspenseful tale set in German-occupied France Its title taken from a line from poet W.H. Auden, In the Orchards of Our Mothers plunges readers inside two lesser-known worlds: ...more |
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Who is our family? Who can we trust? And if we can’t trust or even locate our biological family, can we find the courage to ‘scent’ our way to a more meaningful family circle – human or otherwise? These are some of the questions at the heart of The S ...more |
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A phenomenal read, and the seminal memoir of the early AIDS crisis. Devastating in its detail, both about the desperate search for treatments in the early 1980s and about the impact of AIDS on close relationships. The writing is exceptional as well. “S ...more |
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"Although not, in general, a memoir reader, i was intrigued by the climate change/Peru angle, and the juxtaposition of family caregiving with planetary care kept me reading to the end. Lines like this: "Undetected, his brain grew more and more damaged"
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