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In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
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This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two people whose love leads them to find a courageous way to part--and of a woman's struggle to go forward in the face of loss. Amy Bloom began to notice changes in her husband, Brian: He retired early from a new job he loved; he withdrew from close friendships; he talked mostly about the past. Suddenly, it seemed there was a glass wall between them, and their long walks and talks stopped. Their world was altered forever when an MRI confirmed what they could no longer ignore: Brian had Alzheimer's disease. Forced to confront the truth of the diagnosis and its impact on the future he had envisioned, Brian was determined to die on his feet, not live on his knees. Supporting each other in their last journey together, Brian and Amy made the unimaginably difficult and painful decision to go to Dignitas, an organization based in Switzerland that empowers a person to end their own life with dignity and peace. In this heartbreaking and surprising memoir, Bloom sheds light on a part of life we so often shy away from discussing--its ending. Written in Bloom's captivating, insightful voice and with her trademark wit and candor, In Love is an unforgettable portrait of a beautiful marriage, and a boundary-defying love.
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"The title of this memoir is similar ..."
"Philosophical questions regarding the self and ethics orbit the largely secular narrative without dominating it."
"Bloom, a psychotherapist as well as an author, brings to her heart-rending task the skills of both professions: a clinician's intimate knowledge of diseases of the brain and a novelist's intuitive understanding of the human heart."
"It certainly took uncommon courage and compassion for Bloom to live this story, and still more courage for her to accede to Brian's request that she write about it."
"though never less than expertly crafted, this is a book whose temporal shifts can feel appropriately unmooring ..."
"[Bloom] can make you laugh and break your heart in the same beat ..."
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