Intervals
Brooker, Marianne2024
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What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne Brooker's mother was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis. She made a workshop of herself and her surroundings, combining creativity and activism in inventive ways. But over time, her ability to work, to move and to live without pain diminished drastically. Determined to die in her own home, on her own terms, she stopped eating and drinking in 2019. In 'Intervals', Brooker reckons with heartbreak, weaving her first and final memories with a study of doulas, living wills and the precarious economics of social, hospice, and funeral care.
Main title:
Intervals / Marianne Brooker.
Author:
Brooker, Marianne, author
Imprint:
London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2024.
Collation:
112 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781804270837 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
5674883