"An Uncertain Inheritance (writers on caring for family)" edited by Nell Casey and featuring a collection of accomplished writers arrives on your local bookshelf November 13th, 2007. With good fortue, it arrived on our desk for review when I most needed to read such a collection of essays.

At Recoveryworld, we've reviewed many books that relate to recovery from addiction, but we also feature self help books that focus on recovery from life's many other obstacles. We enjoy bringing to your attention books that keep us focused on healthy eating, thinking, dreaming and coping. This book falls in the latter category.

"An Uncertain Inheritance" offers the reader a fine collection of sharing on the subject of Family Care giving.

One story, by Julie Alverez (Author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents) focuses on on four sisters tending to ailing parents.

Another story, by Sam Lipsyte, tells a tale that mixes dark humor with profound understanding regarding his mother's battle with cancer.

No doubt, this can be a very heavy book for many but for those who are caregivers this book offers a point of relationship.

As many of you know, from my previous essays or blogs, one of my family members suffers from MS. It's a horrible, debilitating disease that no person should have to suffer. Hiding in the shadows is the inevitability that the afflicted person will no longer be able to take care of themselves.

Ann Harleman (award winning author and Brown university writing professor) details her husband's losing battle with MS and her agonizing decision to place him in an institution in "My Other Husband." I could not help but open the book to this segment and found it heart wrenching. It reads like a diary seeming frantic at times and then extremely enlightening at others.

Nell Casey offers this collection at a time when thirty million Americans are looking after frail family members in their own homes. This number is expected to climb drastically over the next decade as Baby-Boomers tip-toe toward old age, as soldiers return home from war wounded, mentally and physically, as sixteen million Americans find themselves caught between the needs of their elderly parents and young children, as medical advances extend lives and health insurance fails to cover them.

Bravo to Nell Casey for finding realizing this unique niche and offering those in need a meeting with extremely talented writers who they can find a brief kinship with.

So many of you will agree that it is "in the sharing" that we find recovery and hope. "An Uncertain Inheritance" is sure to offer just this to the reader.

(Chris D. has written reviews and essays for Recoveryworld for over a decade. You can write Chris D. at ChrisD@recoveryworld.com . Be sure to write "Attention Chris D." in the subject area of your email or it will be deleted)

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