Company of Ghosts (eBook)

A family memoir of grief, grace, and the love that surpasses measure

Stephanie Martin Glennon (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022 | 1., First Edition
394 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
979-8-218-03788-8 (ISBN)

Infos

After a family movie night, the author's husband confided that he had been having a mild but persistent "e;ping"e; of abdominal pain. By Monday, they learned he had inoperable pancreatic cancer, and he had become a full-time patient.The Company of Ghosts is a lyrical story about memories gathering and reassembling as a family is forced to navigate a sometimes puzzling and cruel healthcare system and is reconfigured by loss. It is also a meditation about how we carry with us our experiences with those who--for better and very much worse--cross our paths in a crisis. Compassionate strangers, callous physicians, and infuriating bureaucrats. New and lifelong friends. Forebears we have known only through artwork or cryptic asides. Empathic rescue beagles.It is also a love letter to a husband and children and friends, weaving together the stories we steward about those we never completely lose. A last taste of lemon, a fly ball, or a penny flattened on railroad tracks, can capture decades of friendship and improbable hope, and become a portal to our pasts and our children's hoped-for futures.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.12.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Schlagworte: Family • grace and grief • Love • Memory • navigating illness and medical care • parenthood • telling our stories
• ISBN-13: 979-8-218-03788-8 / 9798218037888