{"product_id":"our-long-marvelous-dying-9780316567121","title":"Our Long Marvelous Dying","description":"\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 \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Little Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50603502207250,"sku":"9780316567121","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f08c0003-0767-40b6-ae03-fd89d94f443c.jpg?v=1732247162","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/our-long-marvelous-dying-9780316567121","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}