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In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

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Amy Bloom・・Ended

Updated: 2022

Content length: 240 pages

language: English

Source: amazon

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Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful memoir of a love that leads two people to find a courageous way to part—and a woman’s struggle to go forward in the face of loss—that “enriches the reader’s life with urgency and gratitude” (The Washington Post) “A pleasure to read . . . Rarely has a memoir about death been so full of life. . . . Bloom has a talent for mixing the prosaic and profound, the slapstick and the serious.”—USA Today AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADES ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, USA Today, Real Simple, Prospect (UK), She Reads, Kirkus Reviews Amy Bloom began to notice changes in her husband, Brian: He retired early from a new job he loved; he withdrew from close friendships; he talked mostly about the past. Suddenly, it seemed there was a glass wall between them, and their long walks and talks stopped. Their world was altered forever when an MRI confirmed what they could no longer ignore: Brian had Alzheimer’s disease. Forced to confront the truth of the diagnosis and its impact on the future he had envisioned, Brian was determined to die on his feet, not live on his knees. Supporting each other in their last journey together, Brian and Amy made the unimaginably difficult and painful decision to go to Dignitas, an organization based in Switzerland that empowers a person to end their own life with dignity and peace.

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📚 Why We Recommend It

In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss is a slim, searing memoir in which novelist Amy Bloom chronicles her husband Brian Ameche’s early-onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis and their decision to seek an assisted death at Dignitas in Switzerland. It’s frank without being bleak, balancing razor-sharp observation with tenderness and dark humor, and it invites readers to consider love, autonomy, and dignity at the end of life. Critics widely praised it; it was a New York Times bestseller and landed on multiple “Best of 2022” lists, including TIME’s #1 nonfiction book.

What you’ll love:

A riveting, compassionate narrative of partnership under extraordinary strain—told with Bloom’s lucid, lyrical prose.
An unflinching, humane look at assisted dying that’s as thought-provoking as it is moving.
Genuine accolades: featured on major year-end lists (TIME; Washington Post “50 Notable Works of Nonfiction”).