When Father Forgets Me: a Secret Farewell
by Xue Shu
About This Novel
"When My Father Forgot Me: A Secret Farewell" is one of Xue Shu's "Two Parts of Life". She created a long non-fiction work in 2014, which records her father's life after suffering from Alzheimer's disease, from the appearance of early symptoms, to the onset, to the overall decline of intelligence. In five years, with "My Father Forgot Me" as the node, my father has actually completed a complete farewell to his family and relatives on a spiritual level. While recording and describing his father's comprehensive changes in body, temperament and intelligence, the author intersperses memories of childhood, imagination of his father's generation, contemplation of birth, old age, illness and death, as well as the complex and unspeakable love within a Chinese family. The turning point in a person's personal destiny is also a huge change in a family. The author leads us into the current situation of the aging of the entire society from the micro perspective of a daughter and her family.
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