'A book of pure fineness, exceptional.’ – Diana Evans, Guardian'A taut, sharp, funny book about being young now. It's brutal—and brilliant.' - Zadie SmithWinner of the Dylan Thomas PrizeShortlisted for the British Book Awards Fiction Debut of the YearLonglisted for the Women's Prize For FictionEdie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, is sleeping with all the wrong men, and has failed at the only thing that meant anything to her, painting. No one seems to care that she doesn’t really know what she’s doing with her life beyond looking for her next hook-up. And then she meets Eric, a white middle-aged archivist with a suburban family, including a wife who has sort-of-agreed to an open marriage and an adopted black daughter who doesn’t have a single person in her life who can show her how to do her hair. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscape of sexual and racial politics as a young black woman wasn’t already hard enoug
What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?The modern healthcare system has become proficient at staving off death with aggressive interventions. And yet, eventually everyone dies—and althou
Nolan, a palliative care chaplain who teaches in chaplaincy studies at St. Michael's College, Llandaff, at Cardiff U., UK, explains how chaplains can provide spiritual care to people at the end of lif
When a parent is nearing the end of life, children can feel like their world has been turned upside down, and they are often scared and confused about what is happening. Sensitive and clear communicat
This is the story of the life and Christian faith of Jack R. East, Jr. and of two powerful dreams he received after fifty-five years of following his faith. The dreams confirmed in living color, surro
At the end of the day, what will people say about you? If folks were totally candid, totally honest, how would your epitaph read? In the Talmud it is suggested that to be successful in this life you s
From time to time we all need to examine our lives and realize everything is not always black and white. But, like a panda, our outlook on life can get a bit fuzzy at times. Ray Strobel's panda philos
Nearly half of people at the end of life will receive hospice care, but few psychologists, nurses, physicians, chaplains, and hospice workers have been trained specifically to recognize and address th
*Highly Commended in the Popular Medicine category at the 2012 British Medical Association Book Awards*The simple sensation of touching someone's hand can have a powerful therapeutic effect. Hand mass
The book emerged from the research project Bioethics and International Law at the Intersection of Life, Death, and Dignity conducted by the Observatory on Human Rights, an international network of aca
Drawing on her experiences in a hospital emergency department and hospice in Colorado, the author describes the daily communication between healthcare providers, patients, and families at the end of l
Communication is at the heart of any complete understanding of the end of life. While it is true that individuals physically die as a single entity, the process of ending an individual life is located
This volume contains 13 essays detailing research on communication at the end of life. Communication and other scholars from the US and Canada discuss health communication in the context of death stud
Artist and scholar Marcia Brennan servs as artist in residence at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and the experience of seeing, close-up, the transitional states and transformational visi
This handbook explores the topic of death and dying from the late twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries, with particular emphasis on the United States. In this period, technology has radically
"I enjoyed reading this book very much. It is very readable and well argued using real life cases and thought experiments as well ? The book provides the reader with a short history of and an overview
