Introduction: "Approaching the age of forty, Le Anne Schreiber decided to leave her position as deputy editor of the New York Times Book Review for a life that promised peace and a chance to reflect and write. But just as she settled into her new life in rural upstate New York, She learned that her mother had pancreatic cancer..." In this moving, beautifully observed memoir, Schreiber shares her observations of her new beginning and her mother's demise with humor, hope, anger, and despair.

Personen: Schreiber, Le Anne