Reviewed by Edna Lewis
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This book is about a father, mother and a college student, who is their daughter; Abby. The book begins by exploring the qualities of the mother; Helen Hansen and the diagnoses of her inoperable brain tumor. Elliot, the father and husband has the dubious job of preparing Helen, life-long friends and their daughter in a ingenious way and enabling them to say hello and goodbye to his wife, their friend and her mother on a trip as a parting gift to his beloved wife.
Although the book is sad in nature, it presents a dignity to the journey we all will have to meet some day; death. And id dignifies death in awya of acceptance rather than a denied transition from life.
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