{"product_id":"9780299361242","title":"Frost Will Come","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen her octogenarian poet mother was diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer, Mary Cappello and her wife moved into the living room of Rosemary's one-bedroom apartment in Philadelphia to help fulfill her wish to live out her life at home. A memoir in the form of lyric essays-with her mother's own writing interspersed-Frost Will Come is a daughter's tribute to her mother's months-long transition from a deeply lived life to a difficult, beautiful, and uneasy death.  In the tradition of Annie Ernaux's I Remain in Darkness and Simone de Beauvoir's A Very Easy Death, Cappello renders an immersive and emotionally honest portrait of modern caregiving in a prose style that is the very definition of candor: spontaneous, fresh, unadorned, frank, and open. While paying homage to expert caregivers and medical professionals, Cappello also brings her signature razor-sharp analysis to all the things that fall outside the realm of (medical) knowledge-from platitudes around the time death takes to the defiance of a \"peaceful death\" as a sign of a moral failing.  Frost Will Come is much more than a memoir of grief. It is a rare reckoning with the very fundamentals of existence: how we come into being, how we care, and how we die.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47809186168884,"sku":"9780299361242","price":44.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9780299361242.jpg?v=1778883403","url":"https:\/\/woodslane.com.au\/products\/9780299361242","provider":"Woodslane","version":"1.0","type":"link"}