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EVERYTHNG LEFT TO REMEMBER

Steph Jagger

My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains

BETWEEN TWO KINGDOMS meets WILD. In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, embark on a road trip through national parks, revisiting the memories, and the mountains, that made them who they are.
Steph Jagger lost her mother before she lost her. Her mother, stricken with an incurable disease that slowly erases all sense of self, struggles to remember her favorite drink, her favorite song, and - perhaps most heartbreaking of all - Steph herself. Steph watches as the woman who loved and raised her slips away before getting the chance to tell her story, and so Steph makes a promise: her mother will walk it and she will write it.

Too aware of her mother's waning memory, Steph proposes that the two take a camping trip out to Montana - which her mother, on the urging of Steph's father, agrees to embark upon. An adventure full of horseback riding, hiking, and "tenting" out West quickly turns into one woman's reflection on childhood, motherhood, personhood - and what it means to love someone who doesn't quite remember the person she spent her lifetime becoming.

A staggeringly beautiful examination of how stories are passed down through generations and from Mother Nature, Everything Left to Remember brings us the wisdom of who our memories make us under the constellations of the vast Montana sky.

Steph Jagger is a sought-after mentor and coach whose offerings guide people toward a deeper understanding of themselves and their stories. Her work, including speaking and facilitating, lies at the intersection of loss, the nature of deep remembrance, and the personal journey of re-creation. Steph grew up in Vancouver, Canada and now lives and works on Bainbridge Island, WA. Everything Left to Remember is Steph's second book. Her first, Unbound, was published in 2017.
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Published 2022-04-26 by Flatiron Books

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Steph Jagger takes us on a heartbreakingly beautiful mother-daughter journey that will inspire reflection, remembrance, and our own courage to take the journey home to Mother.

In this thoughtful and intimate memoir of a mother and daughter on a road trip, many destinations are reached - what it is to have Alzheimer's, what it is to love someone with Alzheimer's and who really is in the navigator's seat. Wonderful addition to the genre.

Steph Jagger's Everything Left to Remember deftly grips both sweetness and rage, recognition and refusal. Jagger treads cultural oceans, the performance of childhood, cinders of inheritance, and how much of who we are is in what we cannot let go. Everything Left to Remember is a reminder that what we commit to forgetting, we also commit to memory.

A beautiful yet heart-wrenching tribute to the mother-daughter relationship. Read more...

A beautiful story of a mother and daughter living through challenges of Alzheimer's and into the intimacy and Mystery of their lives.

Jagger (Unbound) offers a beautiful reflection on love, memory, and inheritance in this heartrending account of a road trip she took through Big Sky Country, one "my mother will never remember and a journey I'll never forget." ... This will cast a spell on fans of Cheryl Strayed and Glennon Doyle. Read more...

Both soaring and intimate, this spellbinding book maps a daughter's journey into the wilds of herself. Using her mother-- who is slowly forgetting herself through Alzheimer's-- as a codex, Jagger reconnects with the unspoken histories of her body and lineage, and somehow finds the language to share her journey with us. If you let it, Everything Left to Remember will unmake you... and then help you rediscover your path home.

Pour a steaming mug of coffee and sit out under the vast sky! In "Everything Left to Remember," Steph Jagger takes us on an epic journey that her mother will never remember and the rest of us will never forget. There is no romanticizing Alzheimer's here, nor is there denying the wisdom to be found in surrendering to what is. This is a book in which words are medicine, and stories have the ability to mend the heart.

This book infuses a devastating topic with a generosity of spirit that makes the pages within it soar. It is a life-changing read that connects us to the greater truth that none of us are ever truly alone. A tribute to love and family and what it means to be human in this fleeting journey called life. Simply put, this book is exquisite, a classic of our time, a must-read if we are ever going to save the natural world and ourselves within it.

Not just for those who seek adventure outside, but those who adventure to seek truth inside of themselves. Jagger conveys the wisdom found in nature to those who have never even set up a tent. This book made me laugh, and cry.

Everything Left To Remember is the heart-guidebook our generation needs to navigate dementia. Jagger's intuition, wisdom, and wit make her a leading voice of our generation. If you have a mother, read this book.

Flowing with poetic prose, Jagger's gorgeous depiction of memory, motherhood, and what it means to love and lose the people we care about the most will leave you feeling tender and wondrous. This gift of a book is about what it means to be real and to be human.

This memoir is a gift. Steph Jagger writes with a combination of crisp humour, grace, and clarity that takes my breath away. This book shows us how to accept the steady parenting of Mother Nature, and how to open our heart to her love and magic - even when we are facing the impossible.

Steph has captured the complexity, grief, and beauty of mother-daughter relationships, as well as the depth from which they are born, in such a way that will leave readers captivated, reflective, and ready to step more fully into their own relationships, lives, and selves. This memoir holds within it a balance of tenderness and humor, grit and grace, mystery and meaning, all weaving together to create a story that I believe all of us can somehow find ourselves in.

I was entranced. Magical.