In this pair of moving, gracefully poignant novellas, sisters Pokras and Yariv explore the world of the elderly with deft humor and heart-wrenching detail. In Feeding Mrs. Moskowitz, the elderly, ghost-ridden widow Golde Moskowitz and 30-year-old artist and workaholic Natalie Holtzman literally run into each other one day, and end up changing each other’s lives. Unfolding in a series of short stories, The Caregiver chronicles the routines and absurdities of the residents of Sunset Hills, a fictional assisted-living facility in Hollywood, from the point of view of caregiver Ofelia Hernandez. Taken together, these stories give a picture of aging that celebrates and illuminates, drawn from the sisters’ experience of caring for their own aging parents.

Feeding Mrs. Moskowitz and the Caregiver (Paperback)

By Barbara Pokras, Fran Pokras Yariv

$19.95

ISBN-13: 9780815609780
Availability: Probably In Stock -- Call to confirm
Published: Syracuse University Press, 4/2010

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