Time Share: A Remembered Past, An Imagined Future, Revised Edition

by Nancy Buell

What happens to the socially challenged as they move into extreme age? Follow one elderly woman, somewhere on the autism spectrum, as she wades out of extreme grief into the unknown---from stability to discomfort to confusion to understanding, and, finally, comfort and clarity with the end of life.This Hybid memoir explores growing old in America, the "living" options that are available to the elderly, and the challenges to be faced. The exploration proceeds against the backdrop of a journey from timeshare to timeshare--once owned with the writer's now deceased husband and her only real touchstones to the life they had. In short order, the stability these properties represent is compromised by yet another devastating turn for which she is unprepared. And so she begins a process of divesting herself of elements of the past, girding herself for something to come. Throughout the memoir and the imagined, fictional future, the text is amplified by embedded poetry and footnotes in a companion collection of prose pieces entitled Time Share An Archive of Memories. In this second volume, the author uses invented prose o explore the potential others have to contribute to her understanding and provide guidance for her later years.This hybrid memoir is a travelogue, a treatise on growing up and growing old as a female in America, and the perils of social "distance". It is a book for the aging. Because we all age, it is a book for any adult who wonders, "what next?"

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Published July 8, 2021