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After the Eclipse: A Mother’s Murder, a Daughter’s Search

"Grief requires imagination: mental images of the one you've lost, of the world that would have been." Author: Sarah Perry Sarah Perry’s life is divided into the before and after. There was her childhood, imperfect but still eclipsed by love, and then there was her mother’s brutal murder and everything that came afterwards. After the Eclipse is Sarah’s memoir in which she relives the murder, the trauma, the blame and suspicion, and seeks answers. It’s not fiction – so don’t expect the gumshoeing aspect, the grand payoff, the whodunnit that ties everything together into a neat bow. Instead, expect the poignant, [...]

2025-05-06T09:51:39-07:00May 6th, 2025|Tags: , , , |

Walking Him Home: Helping My Husband Die With Dignity

Walking Him Home: Helping My Husband Die With Dignity Author: Joanne Tubbs Kelly Love, like illness, is often sudden and complicated. With four failed marriages behind them, Alan and Joanne hardly expected to find each other. Joanne was divorced, living on her own for the first time, in a new job. Alan, her boss, had recently been abandoned by his wife. It was the beginning of a deep, lasting affair of the heart. It was also the beginning of a painful journey that would end on January 11, 2020, with Alan sitting in bed, drinking a cocktail of medicines designed to [...]

2024-11-25T18:02:25-07:00November 25th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , |

True Confessions of an Ambivalent Caregiver

The Personal Cost of Care Author: Cindy Eastman In the spare 168 pages of True Confessions of an Ambivalent Caregiver, Cindy Eastman dispels the myth of the exultant caretaker, blessed and honored to give up everything, to thwart desires and change routines, to take care of an aging, dependent parent. Eastman writes short essays during the four-year ordeal of caring for her dying father, who gradually becomes unable to take care of himself. Wishing to avoid the teary-eyed grief of after the fact, she writes in blunt prose about the feelings of the moment, the complications of duty, the inadequacy of [...]

2025-10-07T22:41:00-07:00August 30th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , , , |
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