EPISODE · Feb 8, 2022 · 9H 23M
The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer's to Solve a Murder - Wayne Hoffman
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591666 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer's to Solve a Murder Author: Wayne Hoffman Narrator: Tim Getman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 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’s Hebrew Colony, 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.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591666 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer's to Solve a Murder Author: Wayne Hoffman Narrator: Tim Getman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 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’s Hebrew Colony, 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.
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