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Life's beauty distilled in the face of death.

If you're grappling with the fragility of life or seeking to find beauty in every moment, "The Bright Hour" might speak to you deeply. Nina Riggs' poetic prose transforms her confrontation with mortality into an insightful, often humorous exploration of what makes living meaningful. It's a memoir that doesn't just dwell on the end but celebrates the luminous moments within the now.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2017)
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ISBN: 9781911231134
Authors: Nina Riggs
Publisher: Text Publishing
Date of Publication: 2017-08-03
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.3
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An exquisite memoir about how to live—and love—every day with "death in the room," from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air. "We are breathless, but we love the days. They are promises. They are the only way to walk from one night to the other." Nina Riggs was just thirty-seven years old when initially diagnosed with breast cancer—one small spot. Within a year, the mother of two sons, ages seven and nine, and married sixteen years to her best friend, received the devastating news that her cancer was terminal. How does one live each day, "unattached to outcome"? How does one approach the moments, big and small, with both love and honesty? Exploring motherhood, marriage, friendship, and memory, even as she wrestles with the legacy of her great-great-great grandfather, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nina Riggs's breathtaking memoir continues the urgent conversation that Paul Kalanithi began in his gorgeous When Breath Becomes Air. She asks, what makes a meaningful life when one has limited time? Brilliantly written, disarmingly funny, and deeply moving, The Bright Hour is about how to love all the days, even the bad ones, and it's about the way literature, especially Emerson, and Nina's other muse, Monta
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Life's beauty distilled in the face of death.

If you're grappling with the fragility of life or seeking to find beauty in every moment, "The Bright Hour" might speak to you deeply. Nina Riggs' poetic prose transforms her confrontation with mortality into an insightful, often humorous exploration of what makes living meaningful. It's a memoir that doesn't just dwell on the end but celebrates the luminous moments within the now.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2017)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.