The Hospice Singer

<p>You sing your songs and maybe you go for a walk or a beer but at some point your brain must remind you that your audience is back there dying.</p><p><br></p><p>From the author of <em>The Marriage Hearse</em> a New York Times New & Noteworthy selection and <em>The Handsome Sailor </em>a New York Times Notable Book comes a new novel that explores the little-known world of hospice singing-home visit concerts for the dying-through the surprising relationship between one of the singers 66-year-old Ian Nelson and a beautiful young woman Anita Richardson to whom his choir sings.</p><p><br></p><p>Ian retired from a career as a high school guidance counselor long married and the father of two considers himself an ordinary man. He is intelligent engaging more attractive than he seems to know and as the son of a minister determinedly moral. Meeting Anita threatens it all. His attraction and connection to this much younger woman-who to complicate matters is dying-upends his quiet New England life.</p><p><br></p><p>In richly detailed finely honed prose threaded through with Larry Duberstein's characteristic humor and compassion <strong><em>The Hospice Singer</em></strong> explores the hidden complexities of life in small town America. </p>