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"...frank, funny...courageous..."

- The New York Times Book Review
"A touching memoir...A superb chronicle."

- People
"Beautifully written and moving...

this compelling memoir will be 

enjoyed by all readers."

- Library Journal
"Cohen's amazing reserve 

of humor and honesty in the 

face of adversity...recall such 

classics of domestic 

perserverance as Anne Lamott's 

Operating Instructions."

- Time Magazine
"the adventure and peril of everyday 

living captured in language that is 

light,beautiful and razor sharp."

- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"...a potent articulation of the ties 

between one generation and the next."

- The Washington Post
"Cohen has written a frank, funny 

and unexploitative memoir...

It's hard not to be charmed by her 

simple, straightforward style."

- The New York Times Book Review
"A triumphant epic of coping."

- The Boston Globe
"...a beautiful story...sweet and uplifting..."

- Girlfriendbooks.com
"Cohen writes a lyrical, simple 

and unsentimental prose...

a warm triumphant high-style 

memoir."

- Milwaukee Journal Sentinal
"Cohen's book is...a fascinating exploration 

and mapping of the human mind's trajectory 

over the course of a life."

- Elle Magazine
"A healing journey...a potent articulation of 

the ties between one generation and the next."

- The Washington Post Book World
"...by turns harrowing and funny, seet and sad...

ultimately leaves the reader with not only a 

greater understanding of the extreme pressures 

family care-taking causes for individuals but also 

of the positive, even joyous outcomes that such 

circumstances can present."

- Albuquerque Journal
"Moving yet unsentimental...Cohen's fluid prose 

lifts her forceful story to a higher level, making 

it a tribute to ehr father and her family."

- Publisher's Weekly
"Cohen blends a journalist's straight talk style

 with a novelist's skill in imagery and timing...

[she] finds poetry and beauty in the quotidian."

- Seattle Times
"Its strength lies in its power to inspire hope. 

Alzheimer's is a dreadful disease, but Cohen 

shows there is beauty in its depths.

- The Oakland Tribune
"Elizabeth Cohen has managed to capture 

the joy, sorrow, happiness and heartache 

of caregiving in her new book 

The House on Beartown Road."

- Caregiver's Home Companion
"Captures the irrepresibility of a young child 

and the poignancy of a man nearing the end 

of his life in an incredibly touching story that 

examines aging and family responsibility."

- Booklist