marvelous
about
anna deforest wrote the novels Our Long Marvelous Dying and A History of Present Illness. they are a neurologist and palliative care physician. their stories and essays on medicine, language, and dying have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and the New England Journal of Medicine.
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books
one
A History of Present Illness
In brilliant, wry, and biting prose, an unsparing meditation on the body, the hope of healing in the face of total loss, and what we do to the dying - and to each other - in the name of care.
two
Our Long Marvelous Dying
A pandemic-hushed city. A young doctor finishing a fellowship in the care of the dying while their own attachments come loose. An ode to life, death, and caregiving - and to the most fundamental human drive there is: the refusal to let go.