A straightforward and humorous narrative field guide for both the dying and those who love them, written by a palliative care nurse and awardwinning writer.

Sallie Tisdale's books include Talk Dirty to Me, Stepping Westward and Women of the Way. She has written for the New Yorker, Harper's, Antioch Review, Conjunctions, Threepenny Review and Tricycle, among other journals. She has received a Pushcart Prize, an NEA Fellowship, the James Phelan Literary Award, and she was a Dorothy and Arthur Shoenfeldt Distinguished Writer of the Year.