num_pages: 113
description: Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary is an intimate, exquisite, and true account of what it is to help a parent die. After her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, former home care worker and award-winning writer Rebecca Brown cared for her mother during the last six months of her life. This spare, unsentimental book comes out of that experience. In short chapters headed by definitions of medical terms, she confronts anemia, chemotherapy, metastasis, cremation. Brown’s is a poignant and unflinching story of how one family coped with loss and learned about the longevity of love.The Wisconsin edition is for sale only in North America.
language: English
title: Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary
titlecomplete: Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary
genres: Biography Memoir, Memoir, Nonfiction, Death
ratings_count: 160
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Washington State Book Award
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press