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The Long Goodbye

Meghan O'Rourke

Hardcover | Pages: 306 pages

Rating: 3.94 | 3097 Users | 478 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Long Goodbye
ISBN:	1594487987 (ISBN13: 9781594487989)
Edition Language:	English

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What does it mean to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge grief? After her mother died of cancer at the age of fifty-five, Meghan O'Rourke found that nothing had prepared her for the intensity of her sorrow. In the first anguished days, she began to create a record of her interior life as a mourner, trying to capture the paradox of grief-its monumental agony and microscopic intimacies-an endeavor that ultimately bloomed into a profound look at how caring for her mother during her illness changed and strengthened their bond.

O'Rourke's story is one of a life gone off the rails, of how watching her mother's illness-and separating from her husband-left her fundamentally altered. But it is also one of resilience, as she observes her family persevere even in the face of immeasurable loss.

With lyricism and unswerving candor, The Long Goodbye conveys the fleeting moments of joy that make up a life, and the way memory can lead us out of the jagged darkness of loss. Effortlessly blending research and reflection, the personal and the universal, it is not only an exceptional memoir, but a necessary one.

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Title	:	The Long Goodbye
Author	:	Meghan O'Rourke
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 306 pages
Published	:	April 14th 2011 by Riverhead Books
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Biography. Death. Biography Memoir. Psychology

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Such a beautiful book. I re-read so many parts because she was so spot on with the grief a Mother's death brings.

I wavered b/t 3 and 4 stars but rounded up when I thought about all the impressive and eclectic research this young writer did in trying to come to grips with her mother's death. She is both more scholarly and poetic than I was when I did my own research after the death of my older brother. I lean more toward psychology and the spiritual; I got the strong sense this writer is an atheist. Also - I was hoping to see in her bibliography/credits something by Polly Young-Eisendrath, a

Another amazing, articulate, wrenching and profound and comforting book about grief. This gal lost her mother in much the same ways I did and as usual, I found reading about each moment of her experience a powerful comfort. She articulated what I felt, but couldn't find words for. And reminded me of some of the sweetest moments of my mother's dying that, when I sit with them, I feel closer to her. I love that the book ends with the single line, 'Stay the night.' So much longing, so much of my

My mother, who had cancer, sent me this memoir about a woman grieving her mother's death from cancer.It's an intense read, particularly if you've ever lost one of your dearest loved ones or walked that frightening tightrope between "I have a mother" and "I had a mother." If you haven't experienced something similar, you might find the book tedious at times, only because in every situation after her mother's death, the author is struck anew by her mother's absence; there is a lot of "My mom isn't

I read a whole lot of bereavement memoirs. This has been one of the very best. ORourke tells her story with absolute clarity a robust, plain-speaking style that matches her emotional transparency. The heart of the book is her mothers death from colorectal cancer on Christmas Day 2008, but we also get a full picture of the family life that preceded it and the first couple of years of aftermath. Theories and other writings on death and bereavement are woven through effectively. The author wanted

Thank you, Meghan O'Rourke, for writing this. Thank you for putting so many things I've been feeling into beautiful words, and for making me feel not so alone and strange about my grief. It took me a while to get through it -- I had to keep putting it down because I was crying so much -- but like this period after my own mother's death, I did keep going and did get through it. Thank you for being a guide, because I've needed one. I may now be unmothered, but thanks to your writing, I don't feel

I'm not sure if I chose this book or this book chose me, but either way, I'm glad beyond words that we found each other. In the fifteen months since my mother's passing, I've found precious few books that do justice to the navigation of the complicated -- to be entirely too euphemistic -- new world in which the newly bereaved find themselves. Reading this made me feel less alone than I've felt in a long time -- fifteen months, to be exact -- and for that, I thank the author from the bottom of my