Books to Read as Your Mother Lay Dying

Everything you can’t say about love and loss can be found in the pages of a story.

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I’d like to think I have a decent grasp on the basics of life and death, but all I know is that my mother is going to die. Soon. The nursing home has transitioned her to “hospice” care, and hospice means Mom will be made comfortable as her body shuts down in the…