Una memoria extraordinariamente íntima de las experiencias cercanas a la muerte que han convertido a Maggie O'Farrell en la mujer y la escritora que es hoy. Una enfermedad infantil que no se esperaba que sobreviviera. Un anhelo adolescente de escapar que casi termina en desastre. Un encuentro aterrador en un camino remoto. Un trabajo de parto mal administrado en un hospital con poco personal. Esta es una memoria con una diferencia: diecisiete encuentros...

"Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist... Cutting through hype, romanticism, and cliché, she recounts her first dissection; her own first acquaintance with a loved one's death; the mortal remains in her lab and at burial sites as well as scenes of violence, murder, and criminal dismemberment; and about investigating mass fatalities due to war, accident, or natural disaster, such as the 2004 Indian...

"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....

Loyal readers of David Rosenfelt's Andy Carpenter series are familiar with Tara, the golden retriever sidekick. Here is a book about the inspirational canine who taught David everything he knows. Well, he did know how to tie his shoes before he met Tara, but that's about it.