Beyond the Words: Exploring the Edges of Language and Life in Bloomington, MN

Nursing homes around the country are populated with residents recovering from all sorts of medical ailments and injuries. They are our mothers, brothers, wives, grandfathers, neighbors, friends. They are struggling with circumstances far beyond the broken bone or other emergency that landed them there. In this collection of prose, Andrea Durbin takes us behind the closed doors of a skilled nursing facility, into the patients' rooms, and into the heart of these human experiences.