At the beginning of the 1990s, Linda Grant's mother, Rose, was diagnosed with Dementia. In Remind Me Who I Am, Again Linda Grant tells the story of Rose's illness and tries to reconstruct the history of their Jewish immigrant family, stalking them from Russia and Poland to New York and London. Writing with humour and great tenderness, Grant explores profound questions about memory, autonomy and identity, and asks if we can ever really know our parents.

'A skilful, moving, even humorous book. It is more than an elegy for a lost mother or the charting of one human being's decline ... It is an investigation of memory, which concludes that "Memory, I have come to understand, is everything, it's life itself"' Scotland on Sunday

About the Author
Linda Grant was born in Liverpool on 15 February 1951, the child of Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants. She is the author of several works of non-fiction and four novels, including When I Lived in Modern Times (Granta) which won the 2000 Orange Prize for fiction. She lives in North London.

Awards
Winner of Mind Book of the Year Award and MIND Book of the Year/Allen Lane Award. Short-listed for Age Concern Book of the Year.



Book Information
ISBN 9781847082695
Author Linda Grant
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Granta Books
Publisher Granta Books
Weight(grams) 311g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 22mm