{"product_id":"our-long-marvelous-dying-hardcover","title":"Our Long Marvelous Dying - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnna DeForest\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePalliative-care physician and award-winning author Anna DeForest returns with an ode to life and to death, and the ways we care for ourselves and others on our long, marvelous walk toward the end.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In a pandemic-hushed city, a young doctor lives a life of insecure attachments: to a distant partner in an untended marriage, to a loaner child who stirs up hurts from the past, to houseplants wilting in a dark apartment on a once-vibrant street. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through a yearlong fellowship caring for the dying and their families, death is impossible to ignore, and still more endings loom at every turn--endings made worse by wounded, avoidant doctors who don't know how to let go. But after the sudden loss of a long-estranged father, our unnamed narrator's work is thrown into painful relief, and we see, under threats large and small, how far we will go to hold on to our lives--no matter how little we live them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Lyrical and with piercing insight, \u003ci\u003eOur Long Marvelous\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDying\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on the twin drives of life and death--and how all of us reckon, day by day, with their ecstatic, inevitable collide.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna DeForest is also the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eA History of Present Illness. \u003c\/i\u003eAnna has an MFA from Brooklyn College and an MD from Columbia University and works as a palliative care physician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 7.09 x 4.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 09, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51750232752416,"sku":"9780316567121","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/954609d8033692726adfeb87681949bd.webp?v=1779946482","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/our-long-marvelous-dying-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}