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When Jane Munro�s husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer�s, the Griffin-award-winning poet must chart a path through the depths of grief, learning to live with loss and to take solace and find freedom in the restorative powers of writing. Open Every Window is a genre-bending prose account of the unravelling of a life�two lives�when Jane Munro�s husband, Bob, is diagnosed with Alzheimer�s. Evoking Joan Didion�s The Year of Magical Thinking, this memoir charts a path through sorrow�the pain of seeing a partner age and approach death, the exhaustion of caretaking, and the regret in seeing life�s scope narrow and diminish. Writing with courage and love, Munro grapples with what it means to care for a husband who is gradually but devastatingly deteriorating while her own identity is eclipsed by a single word�caregiver. Even a doctor admonishes, �What job could be more important than caring for your husband?� In this portrait of the myriad lives contained in a single life, Munro ultimately finds respite in the power of writing, Iyengar yoga and in the rhythms of the moon�not to heal but to face grief without breaking. A poignant evocation for anyone who has experienced loss, Open Every Window reveals the pain and power inherent in loving and being loved. Framed with short observations of the moon�from a New Moon in Pune, India to the following New Moon in Vancouver, Canada�this memoir will entrance with its lyricism and comfort with the writer�s hard-won warmth and wisdom.