Threshold (Paperback)

Paperback. This intimate, poignant, and compelling memoir tells the story of a womana reluctant examiner of deathnavigating grief while caring for her dying brother and aging parents, inviting the reader into a journey of hope, growth, and resilience.Deborah Cummins is a stranger to deathuntil, in 2007, she learns that her brother, Joe, is dying. In the months that follow, as Joes health declines, Deborah confronts hidden truths in an attempt to make sense of her brothers death while hes still alivetruths that, in retrospect, where perhaps not so hidden after all. But before shes able to fully grasp her brothers worsening condition, Deborah is confronted with another family crisis: between complications following a recent surgery and her heartbreak over her sons condition, Deborahs mothers health is waning as well. After the death of her brother at only forty-five years old, her mothers death shortly follows, and Deborah must navigate grief compounded. Spanning the country from a small town in Maine to the sprawling metropolises of Chicago and Phoenix, Threshold skillfully and poignantly examines familial relationships between child, parent, and siblings, providing evocative portraits of each. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…