Barbara Isn't Dying

Beschreibung

A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR<BR>A bittersweet and hilarious novel about a marriage whose decades-old routine is suddenly upended.<BR>Walter Schmidt has lived his whole life within the narrow, "comfortable" confines of traditional gender roles: he has made it to retirement without learning how to fry an egg or use a vacuum cleaner. After all, he could always count on his wife, Barbara.

But when one morning she can't get up from bed anymore, everything changes.<BR>With biting humor and great warmth, Alina Bronsky writes about how Walter, nearing the end of his life, is suddenly forced to reinvent himself as a caregiver and house-husband, and become the caring partner he never was in all his years with Barbara.<BR>Little by little, Walter's rough facade begins to crumble--and with it his old certainties about his life and family.

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