Light Falls on Everything: A Daughter's Memoir of Caregiving, Grief, and Possibility

My father’s heart, and my mother’s, can still break. In this most essential way, they are still themselves. They are still here.

To stay together until the end was the deepest wish of Rebecca McClanahan’s elderly, frail parents. So when the two of them could no longer care for themselves, Rebecca and her siblings moved them from Indiana to North Carolina, where she and her husband assumed the roles of “first responders” with support from the extended family. Over the course of her parents' f...