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Book Review: 'The Year of Magical Thinking'
“You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.” So begins Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, the National Book award winning memoir that chronicles the dev… Continue
Posted by LegacyConnect on March 19, 2009 at 11:17am — No Comments
Book Review: 'The Mercy Papers'
Robin Romm’s mother was diagnosed with cancer the summer after Robin’s freshman year in college. Nine years later, Robin quit her graduate program at Berkeley to stay home with her dying mother. In The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks, Romm recalls the end of her mother’s life, peppering… Continue
Posted by LegacyConnect on March 5, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments
Book Review: 'The Grieving Child' by Helen Fitzgerald
When a doctor informed Helen Fitzgerald that her husband was dying from cancer, he discouraged her sharing the diagnosis with the patient. This also meant not telling her… Continue
Posted by LegacyConnect on January 29, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments
Book Review: 'The Suicide Index' by Joan Wickersham
“This is what my father did,” writes Joan Wickersham early in her memoir The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order. “He got up, showered, shaved and dressed for work. He went downstairs and made a pot o…
Posted by LegacyConnect on January 14, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments
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