About Motherhood: Lost and Found by Ann Campanella
A memoir where Alzheimer’s, horses and infertility intersect. At age 33, writer Ann Campanella returns to North Carolina ready to build a horse farm and start a family. Ann’s foundation is shaken when she experiences multiple miscarriages at the same time her mother spirals into Alzheimer’s. The author’s devotion to her family and her horse Crimson sustain her as her mother’s illness progresses and her own window of potential motherhood begins to close.
The voice in Ann’s memoir has been called constant and abiding, her imagery indelible. Her graceful, exacting language rises above the grief of infertility and the struggle to care for aging parents, connecting the reader ultimately to the heartbeat and resilience of the human experience.
Named “one of the best Alzheimer’s books of all time” by Book Authority two years in a row. This memoir was also a finalist in the Next Generation Independent Book Awards, the world’s largest not-for-profit independent book awards, and the Reader’s Choice Awards.
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Author Bio:
Formerly a magazine and newspaper journalist, Ann Campanella has been writing nonfiction, memoir and poetry for over 30 years. Before her mother became ill with Alzheimer’s, Ann and her husband lived in Houston, TX, where she rode horses and worked as the executive editor of a community newspaper and as the managing editor of a daily paper.
Ann is the author of two memoirs and four collections of poetry. Her writing has appeared in literary journals, newspapers and magazines across the country and around the world, and she has discussed her work on numerous podcasts.
Her first memoir, Motherhood: Lost and Found, has won numerous awards and was named “One of the best Alzheimer’s books of all time” by Book Authority. Ann was recognized by her hometown newspaper as one of the Most Influential Women in her community She is a manager and director of AlzAuthors.com, a website that represents over 300 authors of books about Alzheimer’s and dementia.
In 2020, Ann’s memoir, Celiac Mom, was released. This book tells the story of her daughter’s celiac diagnosis and the family’s subsequent transition to a gluten-free lifestyle. Ann says, “It was one of the hardest, but most rewarding, experiences of my life.”
Ann has a degree in English Literature from Davidson College and lives on a small farm with her family and animals in North Carolina.
For more information about Ann and her books, please see: www.anncampanella.com.