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On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear
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Author:
Lynn Casteel Harper
Publisher:
Catapult
Date:
April 14, 2020
On Vanishing offers an essential, empathic exploration of dementia, one of the most feared diseases in America, and in the process asks searching questions about what it means to face our own inevitable "vanishing."
What The Reviewers Say
In a searching, poetic inquiry into dementia, Lynn Casteel Harper delves into a disease that afflicts some six million Americans and yet seems shrouded in secrecy, its sufferers hidden away in institutions, its symptoms cloaked in a peculiar, telling language of terror and contempt.
A compassionate collection of essays examining dementia from an unusually hopeful point of view.
Baptist minister and essayist Harper, drawing upon her experience as a nursing home chaplain, devotes her affecting but uneven debut to reclaiming dementia patients from being defined primarily by their cognitive deficits.
