Imperfect Endings
Publishers Weekly A deceptively cheery tale about her mother?s plans to end her own life underscores the author?s conflicted role in filial caring and responsibility. Carter?s mother, a widow living in Washington, D.C., had suffered from Parkinson?s disease for more than 20 years, and by 2001 had grown debilitated and depressed about her physical helplessness; […]