Rating: ★★★★★ (5/5) Hadley Vlahos’s The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life’s Final Moments is one of those rare books that manages to be heartbreaking, comforting, and profoundly illuminating all at once. As a hospice nurse and passionate advocate for end-of-life care, Vlahos […]
Yiyun Li’s newest memoir opens with a sentence no one wants to hear: there is no good way to say this. From that bare fact, she builds a book that looks directly at the unimaginable. After losing her sons Vincent in 2017 […]
Amy Bloom’s In Love is a slim, startlingly clear memoir about a marriage tested by early onset Alzheimer’s and the ethical, legal, and deeply personal choices that follow. It is both a love story and a document of witness, written with Bloom’s […]
Few writers capture the fragile interplay between memory, melancholy, and meaning as masterfully as Georgi Gospodinov. In Death and the Gardener, translated with remarkable sensitivity by Angela Rodel, the International Booker Prize–winning author of Time Shelter turns inward, tracing the final month […]