Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso

Author:Sarah Manguso [Manguso, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781555973360
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2015-03-02T22:00:00+00:00

When I was almost nine months pregnant, my mother-in-law began receiving hospice care.

My doctor wouldn’t permit me to cross the ocean to see her. My husband didn’t want to miss the birth of our son. And he didn’t want to miss the death of his mother, the woman who raised him.

I drank quarts of raspberry-leaf tea, trying to trigger early labor.

Six thousand five hundred miles away from each other, two unplannable moments prepared themselves.

My husband’s phone rang. It was his stepsister, calling from his mother’s hospital room. Yes, he said. A few moments later he said, Hi, Mom! I hadn’t heard him say it for days. My heart beat hard, as if it knew. ♦

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