A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories

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Summary: The best book by Nancy Mairs yet!
Review: This book of essays about death is carefully, thoughtfully and sensitively written. As always with Mairs' books, the author shares her personal life, but there are no histironics, no self-pity in this book. Rather she gives us a clear-eyed, deeply felt look at the deaths of key people in her life. I suspect many readers, like me, will identify some of the deaths with ones of loved ones in their own lives, and while this may bring tears, there is a spiritual depth to be found here that is comforting and informative. I believe I have read all of the books written by this author, and I find this one the best written and most satisfying.