When I Became My Father's Mother: A Daughter's Journey Through Dementia, Love, and Letting Go by Pomita Ghoshal

A deeply moving memoir of love, role reversal, and resilience, When I Became My Father’s Mother traces a daughter’s journey as she cares for her fiercely independent, brilliant father through the long, disorienting passage of dementia. As memory fades and responsibilities shift, she navigates exhaustion, guilt, unexpected tenderness, and the quiet, complicated beauty of showing up day after day. Set against the backdrop of an evolving relationship that is at once parent-child, caregiver-patient, and something beyond both, this story offers an intimate window into the emotional realities of caregiving, the courage it demands, and the grace it can reveal. Honest and deeply relatable, it is a companion for anyone who has loved, lost, or struggled to hold on.

Categories: Biographies & Autobiographies