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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Family Caregivers in Fiction and Poetry Carol Levine 1 Part I Children of Aging Parents 1 Diem Perdidi Julie Otsuka 11 2 Whosoever: The Language of Mothers and Sons Rick Moody 19 3 The Third Dumpster Gish Jen 28 4 Water Li-Young Lee 35 5 Lucky Tony Hoagland 38 6 Fathers and Sons David Mason 40 7 Yesterday W. S. Merwin 41 8 Ode to Meaning Robert Pinsky 43 9 Buckdancer’s Choice James Dickey 46 10 Where the Groceries Went Raymond Carver 48 Part II Husbands and Wives 11 Mrs. Cassidy’s Last Year Mary Gordon 55 12 We Are Nighttime Travelers Ethan Canin 63 13 The Ship Pounding Donald Hall 76 14 The Sick Wife Jane Kenyon 78 15 Alzheimer’s: The Wife C. K. Williams 79 16 Alzheimer’s: The Husband C. K. Williams 80 17 The Bear Came Over the Mountain Alice Munro 91 viii 18 Thoreau’s Laundry Ann Harleman 105 19 The Yawn Rachel Hadas 120 20 Mrs. Dumpty Chana Bloch 121 21 Visiting Hours Are Over Chana Bloch 122 22 He Read to Her Anne Brashler 123 Part III Parents and Sick Children 23 How to Win Rosellen Brown 129 24 People Like That Are the Only People Here Lorrie Moore 141 25 Children’s Ward Sarah Day 167 26 Parents Support Group Dick Allen 169 27 Starter Amy Hanridge 171 Part IV Relatives, Lovers, and Friends 28 The Closet Allegra Goodman 185 29 The Caregiver Eugenia Collier 196 30 Atlantis Mark Doty 206 31 Oceanic Hotel, Nice Tereze Glück 217 Part V Paid Caregivers 32 A Pension Plan Ha Jin 231 33 A Bad Day for Pisces Fran Pokras Yariv 244 34 Wheelchair Lewis Nordan 249 35 God’s Goodness: A Short Story Marjorie Kemper 258 Resources 273 Contributors 277 ...