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October Book Club - FREE
Sun, Oct 20
|Loganberry Books
Honoring Breast Cancer Awareness Month, join us for the exquisite memoir THE BRIGHT HOUR, about how to live and love every day with “death in the room,” from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with special guest Liz Shapiro, Death Doula.
Time & Location
Oct 20, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Loganberry Books, 13015 Larchmere Blvd, Cleveland, OH 44120, USA
About the event
We are breathless but we love the days. They are promises. They are the only way to walk from one night to the other.
Poet and essayist Nina Riggs was just thirty-seven years old when initially diagnosed with breast cancer—one small spot. Within a year, she received the devastating news that her cancer was terminal. How does a dying person learn to live each day “unattached to outcome”? How does one approach the moments, big and small, with both love and honesty? How does a young mother and wife prepare her two young children and adored husband for a loss that will shape the rest of their lives? How do we want to be remembered? Exploring motherhood, marriage, friendship, and memory, Nina asks: What makes a meaningful life when one has limited time?
“Profound and poignant” (O, The Oprah Magazine), The Bright Hour is about how to make the most…