A poet and mother of two confronts terminal cancer with humor, love, and literary reflection in this luminous memoir of living and dying.
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A poet and mother of two confronts terminal cancer with humor, love, and literary reflection in this luminous memoir of living and dying.
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• A fearless and vibrantly written memoir of motherhood, marriage, loss, life and death • The New Yorker recently published a piece by Nina Riggs that was shared the world over. In it, Nina detailed her fruitless search for the perfect couch in the wake of her recent terminal cancer diagnosis • Building on this piece, The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying takes us deeper into the mind and heart of a young woman confronting her own mortality • Using the four stages of cancer as a framewor...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Marital love and intimacy; effects of mastectomy on marriage and femininity
Violence & gore
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Frank medical detail of cancer progression, mastectomy, and physical decline
Profanity
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Occasional mild to strong language
Substance use
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No evidence found in available sources
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Philosophical reflections on mortality; Emerson and Montaigne cited
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Self-harm / suicide
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No self-harm or suicide content present
Abuse & suffering
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Grief and suffering from terminal illness and a parent's death
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