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In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true partner she had ever known. Then, just after their one-year wedding anniversary, her new husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. During the nineteen months that followed, as they battled his illness together, she discovered for the first time what it really meant to be a couple – to be a true partner and to have one. This is their story. Charting the course through their whirlwind romance, a marriage cut short by tragedy, and Joyce’s return to singleness on new terms, ‘The Best of Us’ is a heart-wrenching, ultimately life-affirming reflection on coming to understand true love.
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For readers of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, a fierce and dazzling personal narrative that explores the many ways identity and art are shaped by love and loss. Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection – with family, lovers and oneself.
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A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls ‘the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected’ of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks.
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Rita Gabis comes from a family of Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics. She was close to her Lithuanian Catholic grandfather as a child and knew one version of his past; prior to immigration he had been a resistance fighter against the Russians, whose brutal occupation of Lithuania destroyed thousands of lives before Hitler’s army swept in. But it took only one simple question to add a horrifying dimension to her family story. From 1941 to 1943, her Catholic grandfather had been Chief of Security Police under the Gestapo in the Lithuanian town of Svencionys, near the killing field of Poligon, where 8000 Jews were murdered over three days in the autumn of 1941.
