The end of Your Life Book Club
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Call Number: 616.994 Sc, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Schwalbe, Will
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"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Crossing to safety -- Appointment in Samarra -- Seventy verses on emptiness -- Marjorie morningstar -- The hobbit -- Daily strength for daily needs -- The people of the book -- I am sorrow -- The uncommon reader -- The lizard cage -- Frat farrar -- Continental drift -- The painted veil -- Murder in the cathedral -- Wherever you go, there you are -- Kokoro -- The price of salt -- The reluctant fundamentalist -- The year of magical thinking -- Olive Kitteridge -- Girls like us -- Suite francaise -- The bite of the mango -- The elegance of the hedgehog -- The girl with the dragon tattoo -- Brooklyn -- My father's tears -- Too much happiness.
The inspiring story of a son and his dying mother, who form a "book club" that brings them together as her life comes to a close.
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Read this book submitted by Lucy S on July 20, 2015, 7:52am If you love to read. This book is a wonderful and moving tribute to the power and importance of books. It is also a poignant story about a mother and son. And so much more. Read it! And then read it again.
PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: viii, 336 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780307594037
0307594033
SUBJECTS
Cancer -- Patients -- Biography.
Cancer -- Family relationships.