Caring for ageing parents is now a fact for some 76 million people in North America. Nova Scotia writer Meg Federico's new book Welcome to the Departure Lounge: Adventures in Mothering Mother is the smart, poignant and sometimes outright hilarious journal of a daughter coping with the final days of a mother. Meg's vision of a Norman Rockwell-esque twilight for her old-moneyed mother vanished in a gin fog as her mother and step-father's drinking, their feuding home-care teams and a thousand mile gap between Nova Scotia and her mother's home in the U.S. south.

Published by Doubleday Canada.