Meghan O'Rourke's mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer on Christmas day in 2008. She was fifty-five years old.She had been diagnosed in May 2006, just as she and her husband were moving to Westport to take up new positions in a private school: she as headmaster, he running the language program.
Meghan O'Rourke is a poet and writer of criticism and essays. Her memoir of the dying and death of her mother is challenging and painful. She is frank about the effects on herself, and her concerns about no longer being mothered, but she recognizes her own self-centeredness as well.
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