A review by barbaraalfond
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe

5.0

Words fail, mostly because of the lump in my throat.

I write as the daughter of a woman of character, elegance, intellect, grace and charm who fought her own personal battle with cancer. She was also a passionate reader with discriminating taste, and I knew from the very beginning of this book, and this book club, when Mary Ann and Will chose "Crossing to Safety" as their first read, that the comparisons would cascade and bring back the most painful, and most wonderful, memories.

I am so grateful to Will Schwalbe for sharing this deeply personal experience. His book was like a spiritual retreat, far from my quotidian life, in which I could immerse myself in the memory of my mother in ways I had not for many years.

I know that my mother would have loved this book. I can just see her checking off the titles she'd read, and I am so happy that we, too, had the pleasure of sharing literature, and its life lessons, together.