{"product_id":"9780299358044","title":"Frost Will Come : Essays from the Bardo - Mary Cappello","description":"When her octogenarian poet mother was diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer, Mary Cappello and her wife moved into the living room of Rosemary's one-bedroom apartment in Philadelphia to help fulfill her wish to live out her life at home. A memoir in the form of lyric essays-with her mother's own writing interspersed-Frost Will Come is a daughter's tribute to her mother's months-long transition from a deeply lived life to a difficult, beautiful, and uneasy death. In the tradition of Annie Ernaux's I Remain in Darkness and Simone de Beauvoir's A Very Easy Death, Cappello renders an immersive and emotionally honest portrait of modern caregiving in a prose style that is the very definition of candor: spontaneous, fresh, unadorned, frank, and open. While paying homage to expert caregivers and medical professionals, Cappello also brings her signature razor-sharp analysis to all the things that fall outside the realm of (medical) knowledge-from platitudes around the time death takes to the defiance of a \"peaceful death\" as a sign of a moral failing. Frost Will Come is much more than a memoir of grief. It is a rare reckoning with the very fundamentals of existence: how we come into being, how we care, and how we die.","brand":"Mary Cappello","offers":[{"title":"264 pages, 21 b-w illus. \/ 27\/10\/2026 \/ Memoirs","offer_id":57496523964791,"sku":"9780299358044","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780299358044","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}