The Bright Hour: A Memoir Of Living And Dying

"Like Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, Nina Riggs’ gorgeous, morbidly irreverent posthumous memoir about facing terminal cancer in her 30s has earned her a measure of immortality with a place on the shelf of classics about mortality. Heartbreaking? Yes. But with inspiration from her triple-great-grandfather Ralph Waldo Emerson “to cease for a bright hour to be a prisoner of this sickly body and to become as large as the World,” Riggs achieves a measure of transcendence. A poet, happily married wife and mother of two young sons, she uses wit, grit and lit to show us what it means to “distill what matters most to each of us in life.”"