Challenge: 50 Books discussion

I'm opening up the discussion thread for this month's group read, They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson. Like the author, I could begin a book with being the daughter who is coping with elder care, the loss of both parents, and the disposal of the estate.
My parents have much in common with hers, personality-wise, but the family represents vastly different cultural and economic demographics from mine. Johnson's family is upper-income wealthy and Canadian, mine is typically tough middle-class suburban American. I'm an only child with few--and widely scattered--relatives. Johnson has enough close and caring relatives (and friends) to fill a 23-room mansion.
Have you faced end-of-life experiences similar to Johnson's? How is your family similar to hers, and how does yours differ?

Just started reading the book, though it's been on the TBR pile for a long time now!

Only two chapters in and I'm struck by the dichotomy of the feelings that Plum has for her mother.

Reading about the end of her mother's life reminded me of my grandfather. I watched as the years and his various ailments slowly robbed him of much of the vitality, wit and intelligence that I remember most about him. Here was a man who learned multiple languages and was a bright, literate, well-read guy who toward the end of his life got confused by the TV remotes. I recall one day he called the house because he had changed the channel of his TV set and not the box on top of the set and he couldn't get the Tennessee football game back. I left the house, went over and helped him get reset and then watched the rest of the game with him.

At that moment, I missed the man who'd taught me how to play golf, who encouraged a love of reading and who taught sunday School for years and was a scholar in every sense of the word.

Now that I've finished the book, I can say, I liked it but it could've been better. Essentially it's a (true) story about discovering and reconnecting with family.
Some loose ends are left untied, however. As someone who can relate to much of what happens, I'd like less emphasis on the family idiosyncrasies and more on the actual dispersal of what and how much and to whom, and why. For example, after the author and her brothers spend a day dividing up the contents of the house, going through an 81-pg. booklet made for the purpose, many contents of the house still appear unclaimed and pop up later, to be claimed (or not?) by somebody else.
I find myself wondering things like, "Well, did the brother's daughter get her grandmother's engagement ring or not?" and how "extra" dining room chairs were (suddenly) around near the end.
I did enjoy reading it, though, demonstrated by how I got through it at a faster pace than normal.