Chronicle of My Mother

"The work is set at three points in time, five years apart, at which the author records the onset and gradual worsening of his mother's senility ... culminating in a return to a childlike state before her death. Thus, it is also the account of how one family copes with the universal problem of the frustrations and trials of aging parents."--dust jacket Inoue tells about the last decade of his mother's life. It follows the mother's aging, senility, and death, up to the late age of 89. Describes the difficulties he and his siblings faced while caring for their mother