Gretchen Staebler: Mother Lode Book
Gretchen Staebler


Mother Lode: Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver
Memoirist Gretchen Staebler promises to spend one year in her childhood home supporting her stubbornly independent 96-year-old mother. Then her mother will move to assisted living and she will find her own, new life, their relationship magically having become all she’s ever longed it to be. Can it be that easy?
She came for a year—she stays for the end.
2022 Silver medalist, Living Now Book Awards
“. . . [Gretchen] writes with an empathetic but direct narrative style that makes you feel as though a kindred soul is speaking to you. . . . a must-read for anyone in a [caregiving] situation.” 5 stars —Readers’ Favorite
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