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The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer's to Solve a Murder

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Who was behind the brutal murder of my great-grandmother? wondered Wayne Hoffman, a New York City-based journalist and novelist. The true crime was not just a family legend--it made headlines across Canada in 1913--but Sarah Feinstein's killer had never been found. The mysterious murder at 520 Magnus Avenue went unsolved as wild rumors circulated and police puzzled over different theories.

In The End of Her, Hoffman meticulously researches this century-old tragedy, while facing another: his vibrant mother's decline from Alzheimer's. Weaving back and forth between past and present, Hoffman invokes in dramatic detail the life and death of his immigrant great-grandmother in Winnipeg's Hebrew Colony, and his mother's downward spiral. In the process, he discovers an extended family that has been scattered across thousands of miles for a hundred years.

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE END OF HER

"A murder mystery wrapped like a delicious knish around a familial love story. The End of Her is the story of a journalist attempting to solve the long-ago puzzle of who shot his great-grandmother in her bed in small-town Winnipeg in 1913. But the why of it is at the heart of this beautiful book. Wayne Hoffman throws himself into this old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting (a true education for budding journalists) because he wants to give his mother the gift of her history before he loses her completely to dementia. The book's portrayal of Alzheimer's is horrible and hilarious; Wayne's voice is warm, deeply loving, drily funny, and thankfully unsentimental."

-Marjorie Ingall, author of Mamaleh Knows Best

"This is one of those rare, fine books that gives you two of the dearest gifts in literature: a story so consuming you forget time, and an author with the gift to spin, from these supposedly ordinary lives, a profound chronicle of identity, family, memory, and love-and suspense, too." -Boris Fishman, author of Savage Feast

"Wayne Hoffman has produced a fascinating and compelling story of his family history. Meticulously researched and skillfully written, he brilliantly weaves together the mystery of his great-grandmother's murder long ago in Winnipeg, his nearly decade-long search to find the truth about this tragic event, and his joyous and poignant relationship with his ailing mother that inspires him and propels his quest. In particular, his recreation of Winnipeg's impoverished immigrant quarter during first decades of the twentieth century and the various complexities that shaped the lives of his great-grandparents and relatives is an absorbing tale rich with detail and vivid personalities." -Allan Levine, Winnipeg historian and author of Seeking the Fabled City             

ABOUT WAYNE HOFFMAN

Wayne Hoffman is the author of The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer's to Solve a Murder, due out in February 2022 from Heliotrope Books. He has published three novels: Hard and its sequel An Older Man are both published by Bear Bones Books, while the Stonewall Book Award-winning Sweet Like Sugar is published by Kensington Books. He is also a contributor to several anthologies. By day, Wayne is a journalist: His cultural reporting has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Village Voice, The Nation, The Forward, Billboard, and The Advocate. He is executive editor of Tablet Magazine. A native of Silver Spring, Maryland, he currently lives in New York City and the Catskills.

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