Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary is an intimate, exquisite,
and true account of what it is to help a parent die. After her mother
was diagnosed with terminal cancer, former home care worker and
award-winning writer Rebecca Brown cared for her mother during the
last six months of her life. This spare, unsentimental book comes out
of that experience. In short chapters headed by definitions of
medical terms, she confronts anemia, chemotherapy, metastasis,
cremation. Brown's is a poignant and unflinching story of how one
family coped with loss and learned about the longevity of love.
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