{"product_id":"the-long-goodbye-memories-of-my-father-1","title":"The Long Goodbye: Memories of My Father","description":"\"Genuine and heartfelt.\"—San Diego Union-Tribune\n\nRonald Reagan’s daughter writes with a moving openness about losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease. The simplicity with which she reveals the intensity, the rush, the flow of her feelings encompasses all the surprises and complexities that ambush us when death gradually, unstoppably invades life.\n\nIn this moving and illuminating portrait of a woman and her father, Patti Davis describes saying goodbye in stages, helpless against the onslaught of a disease that steals what is most precious—a person’s memory. “Alzheimer’s,” she writes, “snips away at the threads, a slow unraveling, a steady retreat; as a witness all you can do is watch, cry, and whisper a soft stream of goodbyes.” She writes of needing to be reunited at forty-two with her mother, of regaining what they had spent decades demolishing. A truce was necessary to bring together a splintered family, a few weeks before her father released his letter telling the country and the world of his illness. She delves into her memories to touch her father again, to hear his voice, to keep alive the years she had with him.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0452286875\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.0452286875.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Davis, Patti\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in good condition with very minimal damage. Pages may have minimal notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46557436117169,"sku":"RDV.0452286875.G","price":6.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/0452286875-0_8284d366-71d7-4561-880f-030d2a0aa31a.jpg?v=1767375090","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/the-long-goodbye-memories-of-my-father-1","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}