Reverberations by Marion Agnew

 Reverberations, according to the dictionary, are after effects, echoes, events that have continuing effects or delayed reactions. 

Marion Agnew’s mother, a brilliant scientist, slowly showed signs of that dreaded and implacable disease: Alzheimer’s.  

In this book of essays, Marion describes her struggle to come to terms with her mother’s illness and death but they also  reveal the reverberations: her  complex feelings towards a sometime testy mother, her memories of the past, her father’s inability to handle the situation. 

The place she and her mother loved the best, the camp on the shores of Lake Superior, puts these reverberations into focus for her as she searches for clarity and love.