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Book SynopsisFrom New York Times-bestselling, three-time National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin, a consideration of what makes for a life well livedfor readers of Oliver Sacks's Gratitude and Deborah Levy's Cost of Living.
I can''t see a way out of this.
Things will not necessarily get better.
This is my life, but I may not get to do what I want in it.
Ingmar Bergman once said that an artist should always have one work between himself and death. When renowned author Gail Godwin tripped and broke her neck while watering the dogwood tree in her garden at age eighty-five, a lifetime of writing and publishing behind her and a half-finished novel in tow, Bergman's idea quickly unfurled in front of her, forcing her to confront a creative life interrupted. In Getting to Know Death, Godwin shares what spoke to her while in a desperate place. Remembering those she has loved and survived, including a broth
