The Living In Her Dying

<p>Hannah an old old Jewish woman is about to die. But not so fast! Sara her not-so-young daughter isn’t ready to let her go. Not while there’s a heart pumping breath flowing mind working (mostly) corned beef left to eat. Determined to untangle the kinks in their long and complicated relationship Sara invites us on a journey through the last months of Hannah’s life — from the dining room of LA’s Jewish Home to the Day Room of UCLA’s Geriatric Psych Ward; from despair to dark humor to release. A memoir of caregiving and advocacy yes. But so passionate so committed to dignity the story of Hannah and Sara becomes a universal story of love: how we struggle to connect and finally to separate. In <em>The Living In Her Dying</em>a mother and daughter come to know each other and themselves so the mother can die and the daughter can live. </p><p>Inspired by Atul Gawande’s <em>Being Mortal</em> Will Schwalbe’s <em>The End of Your Life Book Club </em>Karl Knausgaard’s<em>My Struggle </em>Sara Bragin commits in this her first book to discover what can happen when life’s most ordinary moments are honored and entrusted to the page. </p>