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When the shadow of a cancer diagnosis falls on a family, a daughter becomes her mother's companion through tests, treatments, improvements and relapses, admissions and discharges. She keeps her husband and children at a distance and carries the whole weight herself, standing between her mother and an often heartless health system, hiding her pain and trying to look cheerful, while her mother, closed off in her wish to spare her child, reveals little of what she is going through. In the hospital corridors and waiting rooms the daughter meets a whole cast of friends and acquaintances, each eager to tell their life story, and swings between hope and despair, anger and acceptance. Drawing on the writer's own loss, the book asks how to turn the darkness of pain into a spark of joy and find the courage to go on.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

132 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction (assigned by AI)

First published

2023 by Janet 45

ISBN

9786191868605 (original)