The Mercy Papers : A Memoir of Three Weeks (Hardcover)

from carolfoisset

Painful topic. So well written, heart wrenching prose. Thank you for your honesty and willingness to share your pain. Look forward to other books by this author.

from tjsjohanna

This is a hard book to read. It is an unflinching look at the loss of a mother by a daughter who is decidedly NOT ready to lose her mother. And yet, it is a very true look. Loss is wrenching - and often we are exposed at our worst. We rail against the inevitably of death. Ms. Romm shares one of t...

from whitreidtan

Fierce, emotional, and painful, this book is Romm's recounting of her mother's last three weeks before dying of breast cancer. Her mother was diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer when Romm was only 19. She lived for nine more years. Nine short years. Nine not-nearly-enough years. But then she di...

from mckait

A raw and anguished story of a young woman watching her mother die. It is not an easy death, it is brutal and ugly and agonizing. I could have written a similar story myself. My mother too, died at age 56 of this horrifying disease. Some years later her sister followed. The author is painfully ho...

from markfinl

Robin Romm has been dealing with her mother's breast cancer for about a third of her life. Her mother, who was a successful attorney until she became too sick to work, has entered the end stage of the disease and this book is the author's account of mother's final weeks. The memoir is in turns an...