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My Father's Wake

My Father's Wake

Where sorrow meets celebration

Book Review, Library, Wisdom, Book, Book Group SelectionCaren MartineauFebruary 23, 2023Non Fiction, Irish, History, Memoir, Dying, Wake, Mortality, Ancestral, Rituals, TED Talk

This Party's Dead

This Party's Dead

Grief, joy and spiced rum.

Wisdom, Library, Book Review, BookCaren MartineauJanuary 6, 2023Non Fiction, Travel, Memoir, Culture, Rituals, Grief, Grief Workers, Dying, New Orleans, Big Easy, Indigenous Cultures, History, Green Burial, Comedy

Left on Tenth

Left on Tenth

From fine to awfulness to love to hope

Wisdom, Library, Book Review, BookCaren MartineauJanuary 6, 2023Biography, Memoir, Medical Memoir, Author, Best Seller, Caregiver, Dying, Death, Farewell Library, Grief, Loss, Non Fiction, NYTimes bestseller, Romance, Relationships, Transformation

When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air

Living in the face of death

Book, LibraryCaren MartineauNovember 8, 2022Memoir, Science, Death, Father, Author, Dying, Medical, Best Seller, NYTimes bestseller

Holy the Firm

Holy the Firm

A beautiful bedside companion and offering to those of us who witness suffering and ask, “Why?”.

Wisdom, Library, BookCaren MartineauOctober 3, 2022Grief, Christian, Dying, Death, Death with Dignity, Masterpiece, Metaphysical, Author, Best Seller

The Measure

The Measure

This excellent little novel will keep you on your toes, keep you thinking and wrench your heart in the most lovely ways.

Wisdom, Library, BookCaren MartineauOctober 3, 2022Best Seller, NYTimes bestseller, Fantasy, Death, Dying, Mortality, Culture, Society, Author

A Memoir of Love and Loss

A Memoir of Love and Loss

I’m still puffy-eyed from all the crying…

Wisdom, Library, BookCaren MartineauOctober 3, 2022Best Seller, NYTimes bestseller, Death, Dying, Alzheimer's, Death with Dignity, Author, Memoir, Loss, Medical, Memory Loss