The Fifth Season: A Daughter-in-Law's Memoir of Caregiving
The Fifth Seasonis an eloquent weather warning, opening the door to public discussion. With honesty and compassion, Lisa Ohlen Harris draws on personal experience to delineate the difficult end-of-life questions we all must face.—Judith Kitchen, author of Half in ShadeInThe Fifth Season, Lisa Ohlen Harris shows us how caregiving is an act  that requires both self-awareness and selflessness. In prose that does  not flinch from the hard realities of caring for her ailing  mother-in-law, Harris also evokes the tenderness at the heart of this  intimate act. She comes to understand that, as she puts it, “this, too,  is a holy union.”--Brenda Miller, author ofListening Against the StoneLisa Ohlen Harris’sThe Fifth Season, an unflinching chronicle of caring for her ill mother-in-law, is also a love story between unlikely partners, “strangers in blood,” whose chosen bond, though tested again and again, never breaks.—Rebecca McClanahan, author ofThe Tribal KnotandThe Riddle Song and Other Rememberings