{"product_id":"the-moon-in-the-water-reflections-on-an-aging-parent-9780826515865","title":"The Moon in the Water: Reflections on an Aging Parent","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of 2008 by \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a series of moving vignettes, the author begins by describing a particular representation of Water-Moon Kuan Yin, a Buddhist teacher and goddess associated with compassion, who often sits on a precarious overhang or floats on a flimsy petal. Then Kuan Yin steps out of the frame to join the author in the mundane challenges of caring for her father-transferring his health insurance, struggling with a wheelchair van, managing adult diapers, or playing in the fictions of dementia. From perplexed to poignant to funny, the vignettes record the working-class English of a fading but still wise dad, and they find other human versions of Kuan Yin in a doctor who will still make house calls or kind strangers in the street.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book includes ten illustrations: both classical representations of Kuan Yin and also the author's own drawings, which adapt Kuan Yin in an act of practical spirituality, reading art through life and life through art. Each vignette invites the harried caregiver to take a deep breath and meditate on the trials and joys of caring for an aging parent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathy J. Phillips\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vanderbilt University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.31h x 6.12w x 0.72d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826515865\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2008 pg. 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLJ Best Books of Year\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2008 pg. 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLJ Best Books of Year\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2008 pg. 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhillips, Kathy J.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Kathy J. Phillips is Professor of English at the University of Hawai'i. Her most recent books are \u003ci\u003eManipulating Masculinity: War and Gender in Modern British and American Literature; This Isn't a Picture I'm Holding: Kuan Yin\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eVirginia Woolf Against Empire\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vanderbilt University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40219062567027,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":73.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_51cd48bc-6c9f-4958-a404-8fc7e466ea43.jpg?v=1656595607","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-moon-in-the-water-reflections-on-an-aging-parent-9780826515865","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}