Everything Left to Remember, Steph Jagger
Everything Left to Remember, Steph Jagger
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Everything Left to Remember
My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains

Author: Steph Jagger

Narrator: Andi Arndt

Unabridged: 6 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/26/2022


Synopsis

"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

About Steph Jagger

Steph Jagger is a sought-after mentor and coach whose offerings guide people toward a deeper understanding of themselves and their stories. Her work, including speaking and facilitating, lies at the intersection of loss, the nature of deep remembrance, and the personal journey of re-creation. Steph grew up in Vancouver, Canada and now lives and works on Bainbridge Island, WA. Everything Left to Remember is Steph’s second book. Her first, Unbound, was published in 2017.


Reviews

Thanks to Flatiron Books for this ARC book for a fair review. Upon receiving it, I knew it would be incredibly heart-wrenching because probably all of us have someone in our family who’s had or who has (or both) some form of dementia, and it’s unbelievably painful. Oh this book—I couldn’t put it dow......more

For anyone who has experienced a loved one being diagnosed with Alzheimer's or any other type of dementia, this will hit you right in those hard memories. The journey of life, nature, mother and daughter, past and present, it all felt connected to me. This circle of human experience on earth. It is......more

Goodreads review by Kat

Steph Jagger brings us along on a "tenting" journey across Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, to join her and her mother Sheila as they come to terms with the wilderness on the outside and more importantly on the inside. Sheila had been recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, a horrendous dementia tha......more

I was truly excited when I was awarded this book in a goodreads giveaway. The synopsis pulled at my heart strings in the way only a grandchild watching her grandmother in the beginnings of this struggle understands. Plus it fit into one of the last categories in my annual reading challenge with frie......more