The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying

The Bright Hour is a heartrending yet deeply moving memoir that explores how to live each day with "death in the room." Nina Riggs, a mother of two young sons and descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, shares her journey of living with terminal cancer and how she approaches big and small moments with love and honesty.

This book continues the urgent conversation started by Paul Kalanithi in When Breath Becomes Air and asks what makes a meaningful life when time is limited.

With brilliant writing, disarming humor, and poignant storytelling, The Bright Hour encourages readers to live well and not lose sight of what makes us human: love, art, music, words.

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