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In the Slender Margin

by Eve Joseph
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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 at an experience that awaits us all, and that is at once deeply fascinating, frightening, and in modern society shunned. The book is an intimate invitation to consider death and our response to it without fear or morbidity, but rather with wonder and a curious mind.
Writing with a poet's precise language and in short meditative chapters leavened with insight, warmth, and occasional humor, Joseph cites her hospice experience as well as the writings of others across generations—from the realms of mythology, psychology, science, religion, history, and literature—to illuminate the many facets of dying and death. Offering examples from cultural traditions, practices, and beliefs from around the world, her book is at once an exploration of the unknowable and a very humane journey through the land of grief.
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Publisher: Arcade

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  • Release date: January 5, 2016

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  • ISBN: 9781628726275
  • File size: 1347 KB
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  • File size: 1345 KB
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Biography & Autobiography Self-Improvement Sociology Nonfiction

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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 at an experience that awaits us all, and that is at once deeply fascinating, frightening, and in modern society shunned. The book is an intimate invitation to consider death and our response to it without fear or morbidity, but rather with wonder and a curious mind.
Writing with a poet's precise language and in short meditative chapters leavened with insight, warmth, and occasional humor, Joseph cites her hospice experience as well as the writings of others across generations—from the realms of mythology, psychology, science, religion, history, and literature—to illuminate the many facets of dying and death. Offering examples from cultural traditions, practices, and beliefs from around the world, her book is at once an exploration of the unknowable and a very humane journey through the land of grief.
Expand title description text
Biography & Autobiography Self-Improvement Sociology Nonfiction
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    Publisher:
    Arcade

    Kindle Book
    Release date: January 5, 2016

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781628726275
    File size: 1347 KB
    Release date: January 5, 2016

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781628726275
    File size: 1345 KB
    Release date: January 5, 2016

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