{"product_id":"as-long-as-i-know-you-the-mom-book-9780820362540","title":"As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eWriter Pam Houston once summed it up: \"Nice mother-daughter stories are a dime a dozen; pain-in-the-ass mother-daughter stories are the ones that grab us.\" \u003ci\u003eAs Long as I Know You\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling read for any adult grappling with a living elder who might also be a pain in the ass, particularly, any reader who wants a tender take on the lethal combination of dementia and defiance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAs Long as I Know You\u003c\/i\u003e narrates Anne-Marie Oomen's journey to finally knowing her mother as well as the heartbreaking loss of her mother's immense capacities. It explores how humor and compassion grow belatedly between a mother and daughter who don't much like each other. It's a personal map to find a mother who may have been there all along, then losing her again in the time of Covid. As the millions of women like Oomen's mother reach their elder years and become the \"oldest of the old,\" their millions of daughters (and sometimes sons) must come on board, involved in care they may welcome the way they'd welcome hitting a pothole the size of a semi. How a family makes decisions about that pothole, how care continues or does not, how possessions are addressed--really, no one wants the crockpot--and how the relationship shifts and evolves (or not), that story is universal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eANNE-MARIE OOMEN is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lake Michigan Mermaid\u003c\/i\u003e (coauthored with Linda Nemec Foster), \u003ci\u003ePulling Down \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe Barn\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHouse of Fields\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAn American Map: Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUncoded Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLove, Sex, and 4-H\u003c\/i\u003e. She has written seven plays, including the award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Secrets of Luuce Talk Tavern\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a poetry and nonfiction instructor at Solstice MFA at Lasell University and Interlochen College of Creative Arts. She and her husband, David Early, live in their handmade house near Traverse City, Michigan. Visit her at www.anne-marieoomen.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50644725498130,"sku":"9780820362540","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7e5171f5-979e-43c6-88f2-da1717d3bdc9.jpg?v=1733122986","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/as-long-as-i-know-you-the-mom-book-9780820362540","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}