The end of her Racing against Alzheimer's to solve a murder
Book - 2022
Who was behind the brutal murder of my great-grandmother? wondered Wayne Hoffman, a New York City-based journalist and novelist. The crime wasn't just a family legend--it made headlines across Canada in 1913--but her killer had never been found. In THE END OF HER, Hoffman meticulously researches this century-old tragedy, while facing another: his mother's decline from Alzheimer's. Weaving back and forth between past and present, Hoffman invokes in dramatic detail the life and death of his immigrant great-grandmother in Winnipeg, and his mother's downward spiral. In the process, he discovers an extended family that has been scattered across thousands of miles for a hundred years."--Back cover.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- True crime stories
- Published
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New York :
Heliotrope Books
2022.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 303 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9781942762904
- Prologue: The Favorite
- PART 1: I Called Bullshit
- Getting Lost
- Cause of Death: 'Homicidal'
- Sarah and David
- The Woman Is Shot!
- PART 2: Travels with My Mother
- Joining the Club
- What's in a Name?
- Passover to Passover
- To Winnipeg
- The Funeral
- Finding Sarah
- The Mystery of Fanny
- A Free Man
- The Key
- PART 3: Whodunit?
- The Inquest
- A Rich Reward
- Unlikely Suspects
- David and Bella
- Letting the Past Rest
- PART 4: Ethel
- Lost
- The Downward Spiral
- 'Hi, I'm Susan.'
- Moving Out
- PART 5: Reopening the Investigation
- Finding Fanny
- Falling
- Growing the Family Tree
- Good Spirit Country
- 'Zayde Didn't Tell Stories'
- The Culprits
- Grandma
- A Note on Sources
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author.
