Memoir Monday... Dying: A Memoir Past Times Cory Taylor

I don't think how I came across this memoir, but I think that I felt it was important. In what seems to survive a rash of memoirs devoted to the fine art of dying, this ane seemed different. Maybe it's because the author, Cory Taylor, is a writer. Maybe it was the interview of Cory I read that but made me to acquire to a greater extent than most this interesting, brave, funny woman. Here's the Kirkus Review of Dying: H5N1 Memoir yesteryear Cory Taylor. Tell me what yous think...

At the historic catamenia of sixty, Cory Taylor is dying of melanoma-related encephalon cancer. Her disease is no longer treatable: she similar a shot weighs less than her neighbor’s retriever. As her torso weakens, she describes the experience―the vulnerability in addition to strength, the courage in addition to humility, the anger in addition to acceptance―of knowing she volition presently die.

Written inwards the infinite of a few weeks, inwards a tremendous creative surge, this powerful in addition to beautiful memoir is a clear-eyed concern human relationship of what dying teaches: Taylor describes the tangle of her feelings, remembers the lives in addition to deaths of her parents, in addition to examines why she would similar to survive able to pick out the circumstances of her death.

Taylor’s concluding words offering a vocabulary for readers to verbalize most the most hard affair whatever of us volition face. And spell Dying: H5N1 Memoir is a deeply affecting meditation on death, it is likewise a funny in addition to wise tribute to life.

********

Does the review brand yous desire to read it?

Here's the link to the Cory Taylor interview alongside Richard Fidler, Dying for beginners: Cory Taylor on facing expiry alongside honesty