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An Unexpectedly Life-affirming Novel About Choosing To Die, By National Book Award Winner And Bestselling Author Of The Friend 'love, Death, Friendship, Compassion & So Much Wisdom. I Just Adore Sigrid Nunez' Paula Hawkins A Woman Visits A Friend Who Is Dying Of Cancer. Brilliant And Stubborn, Her Friend Makes A Momentous Request. She Wishes To End Her Life On Her Own Terms - And She Wants The Narrator's Help. Stricken, She Agrees. 'i Promise,' Says The Friend, 'to Make It As Much Fun As Possible.' What Follows Is An Extraordinary Tale Of A Friendship Put To The Greatest Test: To Witness, Unflinching, Its End. It Is Also A Portrait Of The Way We Live Now, In A World Endlessly Troubled By Crises, And The Dramatically Changing Nature Of Human Relationships In Our Time. 'i Was Totally Overwhelmed By This Extraordinary Novel. Even If It Weren't About A Subject Dear To My Heart I Would Be Equally Thrilled By Its Grace And Profundity. Sentence By Sentence It's A Total Joy - And Sometimes, Much To My Surprise, Laugh-out-loud Funny' Deborah Moggach 'if The Meaning Of Life Is That It Ends, Nunez Gets To The Nub Of Meaning In Her Brilliant Novel. I Loved It As Much As The Friend' Susie Steiner 'when I Open One Of [sigrid Nunez's] Novels, I Almost Always Know Immediately: This Is Where I Want To Be ... What Are You Going Through Is As Good As The Friend, If Not Better' New York Times
