Also published: New York, N.Y. : Delta Trade Paperbacks, [1997], c1994. 210 p

The gripping story of a woman dying from cancer. The narrator is Ann Stanley, an unhappily married nurse. All the more reason for her to admire Ruth Thomas who leaves her husband, even though it means leaving her son, too. A bond develops between the two and when Ruth is struck with cancer Ann helps her die, the process described in minute detail. By the author of Durable Goods

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Decoding demand: 96 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 84 (very high) Structure demand: 86 (very high)