**the Brand-new Novel By The National Book Award Winner** A Woman Visits A Friend With Terminal Cancer. Brilliant, Strong-willed And Alone, The Friend, Facing Death, Makes A Momentous Request. Will She Accompany Her On A Holiday Where She Will, Without Warning One Day, Take A Lethal Pill To End Her Life On Her Own Terms?shaken And Grieving, She Finds The Strength To Agree. What Follows Is An Extraordinary Story - Profound, Surprising And Often Funny - Of A Lifelong Friendship Given The Ultimate Challenge; To Witness Its End. Utterly Of Our Moment And Timeless, What Are You Going Through Is A Deeply Moving Affirmation Of Life In Its Current Existential Threat And In Its Ordinary Tragedies - The Loss, Loneliness, And The Love That Yet Survives.