Murmur of Everything Moving

<p>When Maureen and Steve met in their twenties he'd left behind a difficult marriage and she had ended a troubled relationship. In each other they found a passionate love and shared a dream of a living off the land in rural Michigan. Three years later when Steve at twenty-nine was diagnosed with cancer they embarked on an all-out effort to save his life. When Steve's childhood friend Joey a drug addict learned that Steve needed money for experimental cancer treatments that insurance wouldn't cover he offered to sell Steve's pain medication a synthetic opioid with a high street value to help pay the costs; only one of the friends would survive. <p/>The <i>Murmur of Everything Moving</i> chronicles a young working-class couple's odyssey through the medical mileu as they navigate the terrain of illness and caregiving of compassion and loss. This beautiful and aching memoir is ultimately a story of love--romantic brotherly and spiritual--in all its challenging but exquisite complexities.</p>