The End of Your Life Book Club: A Memoir

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Oct 2, 2012 - Biography & Autobiography - 352 pages
A profoundly moving memoir of caregiving, mourning, and love between a mother and her son—and about the joy of reading, and the ways that joy is multiplied when we share it with others.

“A graceful, affecting testament to a mother and a life well lived.” —Entertainment Weekly, Grade A

During her treatment for cancer, Mary Anne Schwalbe and her son Will spent many hours sitting in waiting rooms together. To pass the time, they would talk about the books they were reading. Once, by chance, they read the same book at the same time—and an informal book club of two was born. Through their wide-ranging reading, Will and Mary Anne—and we, their fellow readers—are reminded how books can be comforting, astonishing, and illuminating, changing the way that we feel about and interact with the world around us.
 

Contents

Title Page
Seventy Verses on Emptiness
Marjorie Morningstar
Daily Strength for Daily Needs
People of the Book
The Uncommon Reader
Continental Drift
The Painted Veil
The Year of Magical Thinking
Girls Like
The Bite of the Mango
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Brooklyn
Too Much Happiness
Epilogue
Reading Group Guide

Wherever You Go There You
The Price of Salt

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About the author (2012)

Will Schwalbe has worked in publishing (most recently as senior vice president and editor in chief of Hyperion Books); digital media, as the founder and CEO of Cookstr.com; and as a journalist, writing for various publications including The New York Times and the South China Morning Post. He is on the boards of Yale University Press and the Kingsborough Community College Foundation. He is the coauthor, with David Shipley, of Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better.

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