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The bright hour: a memoir of living and dying

The Bright Hour 11 thing about the future was settled, then. A certainty—if Christina and Mike fall in love. And want a child. And Christina is able to get pregnant. And the baby arrives safely into the world. On my dad’s side: His older sister has the breast cancer muta. The Bright Hour is an instant classic that deserves to be read by everyone who loved When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi and Being Mortal by Atul Guwande. Like those, here is a book about dying that has powerful lessons for everyone about how to live.’. The Bright Hour is an introspective, well-considered tribute to life. As Riggs’ famed ancestor Emerson writes, 'That is morning; to cease for a bright hour to be a prisoner of this sickly body and to become as large as the World.' The Bright Hour (2018) was written by Nina Riggs after she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 37. As her memoir, it is a reflection on the last years of her life, from her diagnosis until her untimely death in 2017, and explores how meaning and purpose can be found even when life is slipping away. “Profound and poignant” (O, The Oprah Magazine), The Bright Hour is about how to make the most of all the days, even the painful ones. It’s about the way literature, especially Nina’s direct.

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The Bright Hour: A Memoir Of Living And Dying

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