Mother Lode by Gretchen Staebler

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/122219 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mother Lode Author: Gretchen Staebler Narrator: Linda Jones Format: mp3 Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins Release date: 05-13-25 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Long-Term & Elder Care Publisher's Summary: At the age of sixty, Gretchen Staebler promises to spend one year in her childhood home caring for her stubbornly independent ninety-six-year-old mother—sort of a middle-aged gap year. Then her mother will move to assisted living and she will return to her own life. It doesn't go as planned. Rather than a retrospective, this mother-daughter story unfolds in real time with gripping honesty, bringing the listener along with the narrator through the struggle, doubts, and complexities of caregiving and daughterhood—and the beacons of light.