Author Elaine C. Pereira recently added another honor to the list of awards she has earned for her book, “I Will Never Forget: A Daughter’s Story of Her Mother’s Arduous and Humorous Journey through Dementia.”
Pereira’s highly-popular book has been selected as a winner in the “aging” category of the sixth annual 2013 National Indie Excellence Awards.
The national Indie award (www.indieexcellence.com), based in Los Angeles, is open to all English language books and is judged by independent experts from all aspects of the indie book industry.
The book, available onn Amazon or http://www.IWillNeverForgetBook.com), is a true story of the author’s talented mother, Betty, and her poignant and sometimes humorous journey through dementia.
As their mother-daughter relationship evolves, Elaine copes with her mom’s uncharacteristic verbal assaults and watches as her brilliant mind is slowly destroyed by dementia’s insatiable appetite for brain cells.
Pereira (pronounced purr-rare-a), shares warm and humorous incidents as well as tragic and overwhelming encounters from the death of her father, sister-in-law, brother and her mother’s journey through a new world after her familiar world fades from her memory.
