TY  - BOOK
AU  - Riggs,Nina
TI  - The bright hour: a memoir of living and dying 
SN  - 9781925498493 (paperback)
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Melbourne
PB  - Text Publishing Company
KW  - Riggs, Nina.
KW  - Breast
KW  - Cancer
KW  - Patients
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women poets, American
KW  - Mothers
KW  - Terminally ill
KW  - Death
KW  - Psychological aspects
N2  - In 2015 poet and writer Nina Riggs was diagnosed with breast cancer, and it metastasised later that year. She was thirty-eight years old, married to the love of her life and the mother of two small boys; her mother had died only a few months earlier from multiple myeloma. The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying is Nina's intimate, unflinching account of `living with death in the room'. She tells her story in a series of absurd, poignant and often hilarious vignettes drawn from a life that has `no real future or arc left to it, yet still goes on as if it does'. This unforgettable memoir leads the reader into the innermost chambers of the writer's life: into the mind and heart, the work and home and family, of a young woman alternately seeking to make peace with and raging against the reality of her approaching death
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