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This new novel, which should spark lively conversations about end-of-life care, centered on the dilemma of what the living owe the dying when a wife battling cancer makes a final request of her caretaker husband. The book explored the things unsaid and unknown between people, and the collateral damage terminal illness inflicts on even the best relationships.
It's by Ann Packer and it's called Some Bright Nowhere.
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This new novel, which should spark lively conversations about end-of-life care, centered on the dilemma of what the living owe the dying when a wife battling cancer makes a final request of her caretaker husband. The book explored the things unsaid and unknown between people, and the collateral damage terminal illness inflicts on even the best relationships.
It's by Ann Packer and it's called Some Bright Nowhere.
Packer's best-known novel, The Dive from Clausen's Pier, was published in 2002.
Can I ask you a question? How mad are you?
Some Bright Nowhere is about the things we can't say and don't know about each other, as well as the collateral damage that a terminal disease can inflict on even the best of relationships.