TennyBoots!: A Memoir by Judy Edwards

TennyBoots! is a narrative of two women on a journey back to love. Their mother-daughter relationship, now caregiver-care resister, is fraught with all the unresolved complexities that the typical mother-daughter relationship entails. It is also a story of how the Mother sees the daughter when her role changes, in Mother’s estimation, from daughter to dictator. In order for the reader to understand who this Mother is in her late nineties, and the circumstances that have shaped her life, the Mother’s own prolific stories-candid and unfiltered and in her own voice-punctuates the daughter’s narrative and reflections. You will laugh. You will cry. Your loyalties challenged and your thoughts about aging upended. TennyBoots! lends a sympathetic, yet powerful voice to the caregivers toiling in the vineyard daily without complaint. The themes in this book are universal and ageless.