Stranger In The Plumed Hat: A Memoir

Finalist for the Canadian Writers’ Trust Prize​ and the Torgi Award, The Stranger in the Plumed Hat is a poignant memoir that charts the gradual decline of the author’s elderly mother, documenting how her compromised powers of memory, judgment, and reasoning impact the life of an ordinary family. The book offers considerable information about this devastating neuro-degenerative disorder, but it is above all a moving portrait of a courageous and resourceful immigrant woman, of a troubled marriage, and a complex mother-daughter relationship.