The End of Your Life Book Club
The End of Your Life Book Club is a beautiful celebration of literature and a profound testament to the ways we remember our loved ones. It is an inspiring memoir for fans of Joan Didion, Annie Lamott, and Mitch Albom.
Mary Anne Schwalbe was a well-known educator who held positions such as Director of Admissions at Harvard and Director of College Counseling at the prestigious Dalton School in New York. She also saw it as her responsibility to educate the less fortunate, and she spent the last ten years of her life building libraries in Afghanistan. But her story begins with a mocha, dispensed from a machine in the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's waiting room. Will casually asks his mother what she's been reading over coffee. The conversation they have becomes a tradition: they mutually agree to read and share the same books as Mary Anne awaits her chemotherapy treatments. Their conversations reveal how books become increasingly important to the bond between a remarkable woman whose life is coming to an end and a man who is becoming closer to his mother than he has ever been.
Author: Will Schwalbe
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0307399672?tag=prhca-20
