In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying

Like Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, an extraordinarily moving and engaging look at loss and death.

Eve Joseph is an award-winning poet who worked for twenty years as a palliative care counselor in a hospice. When she was a young girl, she lost a much older brother, and her experience as a grown woman helping others face death, dying, and grief opens the path for her to recollect and understand his loss in a way she could not as a child. In the Slender Margin is an insider's look...