Description: This rare and wonderful book tells the poignant story of love and death in a family. Insights, advice, and common sense about living and loving, death and dying and grief, provide invaluable lessons for us all.

An award-winning journalist, MacPherson was inspired to write this book after enduring her own painful grief following two deaths in her family. For more than two years MacPherson closely observed and shared Anna Johannessen's life and how friends and family dealt with Anna's breast cancer. She investigates common concerns -- how to communicate with children about life-threatening illness and the death of a parent, how to live a loving life until the end, and different ways in which men and women grieve. She also examines the positive ways that relatives, friends, and professional caregivers can help alleviate stress and pain.

MacPherson's keen reporting evokes the anger and sadness as well as the unexpected, therapeutic humor and optimism that come even during the final days of life. Anna's dying at home with friends, family, and hospice caregivers is a magical moment. This remarkable woman's story will help readers to identify, confront, and accept the various faces of grief and to triumph in the presence of death.

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