Plum remembers her loving but difficult parents who could not have been more different: the British father, a handsome, disciplined patriarch who nonetheless could not control his opinionated, extroverted Southern-belle wife who loved tennis and gin gimlets. Twenty-three rooms bulge with history, antiques and oxygen tanks. Now they must empty and sell the beloved family home, which hasn't been de-cluttered in more than half a century. The great Canadian reading list: 150 books to read for Canada 150Īfter almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents - first for their senile father, then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year-old mother - author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers experience conflicted feelings of grief and relief when their mother, the surviving parent, dies.They Left Us Everything is a funny, touching memoir about the importance of preserving family history to make sense of the past and nurturing family bonds to safeguard the future. But unearthing new facts about her parents helps her reconcile those relationships with a more accepting perspective about who they were and what they valued. Items from childhood trigger memories of her eccentric family growing up in a small town on the shores of Lake Ontario in the 1950s and 60s. The task consumes her, becoming more rewarding than she ever imagined.

Twenty-three rooms bulge with history, antiques, and oxygen tanks. Now they must empty and sell the beloved family home, which hasn’t been de-cluttered in more than half a century. Winner of the 2015 RBC Taylor Prize Winner of the 2016 Forest of Reading® Evergreen Award™ 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 brothers experience conflicted feelings of grief and relief when their mother, the surviving parent, dies. They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson Book PDF Summary

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