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Dava Shastri's Last Day by Kirthana Ramisetti
3.5
emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

Another new author that I picked up because of the Lilly Singh book club, that was a light read. Well, not light because the premise was about a woman looking back on her life as she gets ready to die, but light in the sense that even within the somewhat bleak subject matter (debilitating disease, assisted death) it managed to share Dava Shastri's live in a way that didn't feel bleak or heavy handed. 

I think what I really appreciated about the book, in the end, was that it was a story about scheduling. That you can try to plan for every part of your life (or death) but sometimes the unexpected changes are what makes those final moments worthwhile.