Our long marvelous dying
Call Number
- FICTION DEFO (CEN)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York ; Boston ; London : Little, Brown and Company, 2024.
Physical Description
217 pages ; 19 cm
Summary
"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. 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"--
Subjects
- Physicians > Fiction.
- Terminal care > Fiction.
- Palliative treatment > Fiction.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023 > Fiction
- Estranged families > Fiction.
- Marital conflict > Fiction.
- Parent and adult child > Fiction.
- Death > Fiction.
- Therapeutics > Fiction.
- Fathers > Death > Fiction.
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.