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Everything Left to Remember

My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains

Audiobook
1 of 2 copies available
1 of 2 copies available

"This audiobook is a touching testament to the power of stories, nature, and love to sustain and connect us." - AudioFile on Everything Left to Remember
BETWEEN TWO KINGDOMS meets WILD. In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, embark on a road trip through national parks, revisiting the memories, and the mountains, that made them who they are.

Steph Jagger lost her mother before she lost her. Her mother, stricken with an incurable disease that slowly erases all sense of self, struggles to remember her favorite drink, her favorite song, and—perhaps most heartbreaking of all—Steph herself. Steph watches as the woman who loved and raised her slips away before getting the chance to tell her story, and so Steph makes a promise: her mother will walk it and she will write it.
Too aware of her mother's waning memory, Steph proposes that the two take a camping trip out to Montana—which her mother, on the urging of Steph's father, agrees to embark upon. An adventure full of horseback riding, hiking, and "tenting" out West quickly turns into one woman's reflection on childhood, motherhood, personhood—and what it means to love someone who doesn't quite remember the person she spent her lifetime becoming.
A staggeringly beautiful examination of how stories are passed down through generations and from Mother Nature, Everything Left to Remember brings us the wisdom of who our memories make us under the constellations of the vast Montana sky.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Andi Arndt brings this heartrending yet inspiring memoir to life. When Steph Jagger's mother, Shelia, is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Jagger plans a camping trip through three national parks, a last opportunity to connect and uncover her mother's stories. As Steph, Arndt's voice is filled with love, patience, and moments of frustration as Shelia repeats questions over and over, trying to make sense of who she is, where she is, and who her traveling companion is. Arndt also lets us hear Shelia's mixed moments of lucidity, confusion, and frustration as the journey progresses. Nature gives her time and space to recall and share stories long buried. This audiobook is a touching testament to the power of stories, nature, and love to sustain and connect us. N.E.M. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 24, 2022
      Jagger (Unbound) offers a beautiful reflection on love, memory, and inheritance in this heartrending account of a road trip she took through Big Sky Country, one “my mother will never remember and a journey I’ll never forget.” After her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2015, Jagger planned a camping trip for the two of them in Montana. Jagger’s prose enchants as she chronicles the stunning natural landscapes they encountered in the state’s mountains and plains, and the internal reckoning she wrestled with regarding her family’s legacy: “My grandmother had dementia. My mother has Alzheimer’s. I am a sapling inside of a forest that seems hell-bent on forgetting.” Also present is the frustration Jagger felt as she guided her mother through terrain unfamiliar to them both—“My mother was losing her mind and I was losing my patience.” While it’s a somber tale—made more immediate against the collapse of the natural world (“Will we still call it Glacier National Park when it no longer has any glaciers? Will I still call her my mother when she no longer knows she has daughters?”)—it’s one that readers will have a hard time forgetting. This will cast a spell on fans of Cheryl Strayed and Glennon Doyle.

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