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A review by shirleenr
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat
4.0
4.25/5 on aesthetic narrative structural merits
5/5 - on heart. what threads these disparate chapters together, written often for varying news and magazine outlets, is that Danticat processes her mother's death of ovarian cancer. The continuity is not linear, but it's there. Danticat shares her grief and her fears, her dreams and even her mother's dreams, from diagnosis and initial chemotherapy and holistic medicine treatments until her mother's decline in hospice. She shares even the hours of her mother's last breath, her body transfer to a morgue, the year that follows. This endeared me most to The Art of Death . Thank you, Ms. Danticat. I'm grateful for your witness and testimony
5/5 - on heart. what threads these disparate chapters together, written often for varying news and magazine outlets, is that Danticat processes her mother's death of ovarian cancer. The continuity is not linear, but it's there. Danticat shares her grief and her fears, her dreams and even her mother's dreams, from diagnosis and initial chemotherapy and holistic medicine treatments until her mother's decline in hospice. She shares even the hours of her mother's last breath, her body transfer to a morgue, the year that follows. This endeared me most to The Art of Death . Thank you, Ms. Danticat. I'm grateful for your witness and testimony