The End of Your Life Book Club: A MemoirA 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
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 | |
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