{"product_id":"where-is-grandma-9798997650803","title":"Where Is Grandma?","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat do older women know about resilience that the rest of us risk losing?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on original doctoral research and conversations with twenty-eight women between the ages of sixty-five and ninety-six, \u003cem\u003eWhere Is Grandma?\u003c\/em\u003e explores how resilience is constructed and reconstructed across a lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe women spoke about illness, widowhood, financial strain, displacement, caregiving, work, friendship, family, gardens, animals, and the ordinary practices that helped them continue. Their accounts reveal resilience not as a fixed trait that some people possess and others lack, but as something built through daily habits, inner resources, relationships, and the refusal to be defined by adversity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParticipants' experiences came together in five interconnected categories: building and sustaining an everyday resilience architecture; refusing to be defined by what happened; cultivating inner resources; naming the conditions that shaped what was possible; and deciding what resilience means to each woman now. These are not five steps or a formula to follow. They are patterns that emerged across the women's lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center of the book is a question of inheritance: What happens to the knowledge accumulated across a lifetime when no one thinks to ask about it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhere Is Grandma?\u003c\/em\u003e is not a self-help book. It is an account of what women learn through grief, work, family, displacement, aging, and beginning again-and what might still pass between generations if we make time to listen. Includes a reader's reflection and book club discussion guide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Forbes Resilience Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798997650803\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d","brand":"Alena Forbes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53459266601141,"sku":"9798997650803","price":18.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9798997650803.jpg?v=1791297894","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/where-is-grandma-9798997650803","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}