Ladysitting - My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century

Lorene Cary

W. W. Norton & Company

2019

256 páginas

8h 32m

ISBN-10: 0393635880

Lorene Cary’s grandmother moves in, and everything changes: day- to- day life, family relationships, the Nana she knew―even their shared past.

As a child, Lorene Cary, author of the classic memoir Black Ice, spent weekends with her beloved grandmother, who happily spoiled her. Now it was time for Cary to “ladysit” Nana―100 years old and increasingly frail―in her home.

Cary knew there might be some reckonings to come. Nana was a force: she still managed a business and had maintained her independence. Her stubbornness could come out in unanticipated ways― secretly getting a driver’s license to show up her husband, carrying on a longtime feud with Cary’s father. But Nana could also be devoted: to her father, to black causes, and― Cary had thought― to her grandchildren and great- grandchildren. Facing the inevitable raises tensions, with Cary drawing on her spirituality and Nana consoling herself in late- night sweets and the loyalty of caretakers. When Nana doubts Cary’s dedication, Cary begins a meditation on love and forgiveness.