No More Words: A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh » (Reprint)

Reeve Lindbergh is the author of several books for adults and children. They include the memoir of her childhood and youth, Under a Wing, No More Words, a description of the last years of her mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Forward From Here, a memoir about entering her sixties. She lives with her husband, Nat Tripp, and several animals on a farm in northern Vermont.

In 1999, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in her nineties, moved to the farm in Vermont where her daughter, Reeve, and Reeve's family live. The gifted communicator had been rendered nearly speechless by a series of small strokes. No More Words is a moving and compassionate memoir of the final seventeen months of Reeve's mother's life.

Library Journal

Although physically frail and confused, Anne Morrow Lindbergh continued to live at her home in Connecticut until age 93 with round-the-clock care. In 2001, on one of her frequent visits to her daughter, Reeve, in Vermont, she developed pneumonia, and the family decided that she should move into a small house just 100 yards from the main house that was designed and built for her by Reeve's husband. Reeve gathered a team of caregivers to provide care and company for her mother. Then a series of small strokes left Anne mostly silent. When she did talk, her words were not always germane to the conversation or events around her. Reeve, who eloquently recalled her famous parents in Under a Wing (LJ 10/1/98), writes with great compassion for her frail mother, but she does not gloss over her own conflicted emotions and the challenges she faced. Full of insight, humor, and tales of sadness and happiness, this memoir will be especially appreciated by readers struggling to care for their aging parents. Excerpts from Anne Morrow Lindbergh's writings are included. For both biography and gerontology collections. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/15/01.] Jodith Janes, Cleveland Clinic Foundation Lib. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.