Summary
"A warm, heartfelt memoir of family, loss, and a house jam-packed with decades of goods and memories. After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents--first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother--author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothe... Full description
- Never Mind the Dog
- Part I. Endings
- Mum's Will
- Hornet's Nest
- Point O' View
- Dancing Till the End
- Good-bye, Mum
- Part II. Inheritance
- Other Mothers
- Unpacking the Past
- A Fate Worse Than Death
- Appraisals
- Buried Treasure
- Part III. Dispersal
- Two Weddings and a Funeral
- Dividing What Remains
- Earthquake
- Careful What You Wish For
- Separation
- Hong Kong Farewell
- One Last Look.