Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Title: Long Goodbye: A Memoir Author: Meghan O'Rourke ISBN: 9781594487989 Publisher: Riverhead Books Published: 2011 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Near Fine H 1628540 Publisher Description: From one of America's foremost young literary voices, a transcendent portrait of the unbearable anguish of grief and the enduring power of familial love. What does it mean to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge grief? After her mother died of cancer at the age of fifty-five, Meghan O'Rourke found that nothing had prepared her for the intensity of her sorrow. In the first anguished days, she began to create a record of her interior life as a mourner, trying to capture the paradox of grief-its monumental agony and microscopic intimacies-an endeavor that ultimately bloomed into a profound look at how caring for her mother during her illn