About the Book
About the Book
Things I've Learned from Dying: A Book About Life
In his riveting, artfully written memoir THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EXECUTION, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his work defending inmates on death row. But when Dow's father-in-law receives his own death sentence in the form of terminal cancer, and his gentle dog Winona suffers acute liver failure, the author is forced to reconcile with death in a far more personal way, both as a son and as a father.
Told through the disparate lenses of the legal battles he's spent a career fighting, and the intimate confrontations with death each family faces at home, THINGS I'VE LEARNED FROM DYING offers a poignant and lyrical account of how illness and loss can ravage a family. Full of grace and intelligence, Dow offers readers hope without cliché and reaffirms our basic human needs for acceptance and love by giving voice to the anguish we all face --- as parents, as children, as partners, as friends --- when our loved ones die tragically, and far too soon.
Things I've Learned from Dying: A Book About Life
- Publication Date: January 7, 2014
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Twelve
- ISBN-10: 1455575240
- ISBN-13: 9781455575244
