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In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying

In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying

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 generationsâ€”from the realms of mythology, psychology, science, religion, history, and literatureâ€”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.

Country	USA
Author	Eve Joseph
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	Arcade
EAN	9781628725834
Feature	Arcade Pub
Genre	SELF-HELP
ISBN	1628725834
Label	Arcade
Manufacturer	Arcade
MPN	unknown
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	224
PartNumber	unknown
PublicationDate	2016-01-05
Publisher	Arcade
ReleaseDate	2016-01-05
Studio	Arcade

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