By David R. Dow
ISBN-10: 1455575232
ISBN-13: 9781455575237
"Every lifestyles is diversified, yet each demise is identical. we are living with others. We die alone."
In his riveting, artfully written memoir The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his paintings protecting inmates on loss of life row. but if Dow's spouse's father gets his personal dying sentence within the type of terminal melanoma, and his light puppy Winona suffers acute liver failure, the writer is compelled to reconcile with dying in a much more own manner, either as a son and as a father.
Told during the disparate lenses of the felony battles he's spent a profession battling, and the intimate confrontations with demise every one kin faces at domestic, issues I'VE discovered FROM death deals a poignant and lyrical account of ways disease and loss can ravage a family members. choked with grace and intelligence, Dow deals readers wish with out cliché and reaffirms our easy human wishes for popularity and love by way of giving voice to the affliction all of us face--as mom and dad, as young children, as companions, as friends--when our family die tragically, and much too quickly.
