I began journaling about this experience as it was happening in 1993.īelieve it or not, it took me 20 years. My foundation was shaken when I experienced multiple miscarriages as my mother’s health gradually deteriorated. My husband and I had just returned to my home state of North Carolina ready to build a horse farm and start a family. Motherhood: Lost and Found is the story of my mother’s descent into Alzheimer’s at the same time I was trying to become a mother myself. Motherhood: Lost and Found was a finalist in the Next Generation Independent Book Awards, the world’s largest not-for-profit independent book awards. Her graceful, exacting language rises above the grief of infertility and the struggle to care for aging parents, connecting the reader ultimately to the heartbeat and resilience of the human experience. The voice in Ann’s memoir, Motherhood: Lost and Found has been called constant and abiding, her imagery indelible. The author’s devotion to her family and her horse Crimson sustained her as her mother’s illness progressed and her own window of potential motherhood began to close. Ann’s foundation was shaken when she experienced multiple miscarriages at the same time her mother spiraled into Alzheimer’s. I wanted to share my story so that others might have an emotional roadmap to help them on this difficult journey.Īnn Campanella – 3 October 2016 The Back FlapĪt age 33, award-winning author and poet Ann Campanella returned to her home state of North Carolina ready to build a horse farm and start a family.
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