In Love Pdf Summary
This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two people whose love leads them to find a courageous way to part–and of a woman’s struggle to go forward in the face of loss.
Amy Bloom began to notice changes in her husband, Brian: He retired early from a new job he loved; he withdrew from close friendships; he talked mostly about the past. Suddenly, it seemed there was a glass wall between them, and their long walks and talks stopped. Their world was altered forever when an MRI confirmed what they could no longer ignore: Brian had Alzheimer’s disease.
Forced to confront the truth of the diagnosis and its impact on the future he had envisioned, Brian was determined to die on his feet, not live on his knees. Supporting each other in their last journey together, Brian and Amy made the unimaginably difficult and painful decision to go to Dignitas, an organization based in Switzerland that empowers a person to end their own life with dignity and peace.
In this heartbreaking and surprising memoir, Bloom sheds light on a part of life we so often shy away from discussing–its ending. Written in Bloom’s captivating, insightful voice and with her trademark wit and candor, In Love is an unforgettable portrait of a beautiful marriage, and a boundary-defying love.
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In Love Review
5.0 out of 5 stars Honest & tender story of letting go
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 26, 2022
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Thank you, Amy Bloom, for writing about your experiences in such an honest and poignant way, of capturing what it truly felt like to actively participate in the letting go of Brian while still trying to hold onto the mundane pleasures and annoyances of your life together, so easily taken for granted outside of his terminal diagnosis. The tender, infuriating, wistful, and terrifying moments were all laid bare, immune to judgment — a glimpse of how perfect and imperfect our humanity can be as we face loss and death of a loved one. My mother is slipping away from us… her vibrant, talented, humorous, loving and confident self is being swallowed by dementia, and I often say it is worse than a death. We are grieving the loss of her while she is still alive. But I found solace in your story, and I can only hope to recount this difficult season of my/her life with as much grace and honesty as you did. Thank you.
5.0 out of 5 stars fabulous and important memoir
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 6, 2022
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In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom was the October bookclub pick for #zibbysvirtualbookclub and it is an extraordinary memoir. The author’s writing style and brutal honesty make this book so very special.
Amy Bloom writes about her heartbreak and determination to support her husband Brian Ameche’s desire to end his life on his own terms after a diagnosis and cognitive decline due to Alzheimer’s disease. The author chat brought her husband into beautiful focus – this was a fabulous bookclub pick lots to ponder on and think about. I am still sorting my feelings about suicide or assisted suicide for myself in the situation but also for how supportive I would be able to be. I would hope to have Amy’s strength !
5.0 out of 5 stars I Cried When Brian Died
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 4, 2022
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I finished Amy Bloom’s marvelous, blunt, laugh-out-loud, tearful In Love (published in 2022). I am a retired pastor; part of my ministry was in hospice care.
It’s a memoir. Which means it’s all true, even the parts of her life with her beloved husband that might be swept under the rug or exaggerated or one-sided.
The reader reading the book knows how it will end. Isn’t that the case—for example—with the viewer viewing the film Apollo 13? In Ron Howard’s retelling of that 1970 space disaster, whether you’ve never seen it or watched it a score of times, you know bad things will happen. They do. In Ms. Bloom’s memoir, with its brevity, levity, and gravity, you know her husband Brian is going to die.
He does.
And I cried when he did.
Brian Ameche had early-onset Alzheimer’s. By his mid-sixties and with an early retirement, he and his wife Amy saw the dreary writing on the wall. While his death was an uncertain date on a future calendar, his living was not. Every hour, day, week, month, year would reveal another banal or cruel example of Brian no longer being Brian.
While he is still able to function, to make decisions, Amy Bloom’s flawed, delightful husband prefers to end his life. She prefers to support him. In Love is their journey to that moment. In the United States, with about two handfuls of states having death-with-dignity laws, they had no option. First, they didn’t live in a state allowing any form of medically-assisted suicide. Second, even if they had lived in an Oregon or Montana, Brian did NOT have the required “six months or less to live.” Maybe his Alzheimer’s, along with a sudden and new “other” disease could take his life in a few months, or maybe his dementia would span decades before shutting down his beleaguered body? Regardless of any state and any current law, their choices to end his life came down to one place.
Dignitas.
In Switzerland.
And that’s all I’m going to tell you.
Except that I think it’s an extraordinary book.
And also, I can’t help but ask: What would I do? Or ask: What would you do?
About Amy Bloom Author Of In Love pdf Book
Amy Bloom is the New York Times bestselling Author Of In Love pdf Book, she is a National Book Award finalist; A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; Love Invents Us; Normal; Away; Where the God of Love Hangs Out; and Lucky Us. Her stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Short Stories, The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, and many other anthologies. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, O: The Oprah Magazine, Slate, Tin House, and Salon, among other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award.
In Love pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : Random House (March 8, 2022)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 240 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0593243943
- ISBN-13 : 978-0593243947
- Item Weight : 13.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.76 x 0.94 x 8.53 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #11,182 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #10 in Survival Biographies
- #37 in Grief & Bereavement
- #517 in Memoirs (Books)
- Customer Reviews: 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,645 ratings
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