
Lynne Tillman & Michael Bracewell: Mothercare
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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How to Survive Your Own Sanity for 11 Years
"I had a job to do. I felt this is what I had to do," she says of caring for her dying mother. "It was like going to school when you didn't want to go to school, it was something you had to do." The author's mother died from brain cancer two years ago at the age of 69. She writes about coping with grief in an essay called 'The Grief Diaries: A Memoir'
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