The end of your life book club too often reads like wills mary anne schwalbe book. The author and his mother bond over books as she faces death from pancreatic cancer at age 73. As schwalbe points out, the name was appropriate not just because his mother was dying, but because any book could be your. The end of your life book club by will schwalbe for sale. When i read i want to sit down and sail through a book. In the pantheon of cancers, pancreatic is one of the most deadly, especially once it spreads to other organs, the liver, in mrs schwalbes case. Bookpage this touching and insightful memoir about the slow process of dying will appeal to readers of tuesdays with morrie and. The end of your life book club hardcover by will schwalbe.
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