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This poignant love story of a father for his son is at once funny, heartbreaking, and hopeful. In it a young man teaches his entire family a new way to die with wit, candor, and, always, remarkable grace. This emotionally riveting account probes the heart without sentimentality or self-pity. As the book opens, Richard Lischers son, Adam, calls to tell his father, a professor of divinity at Duke University, that his cancer has returned. Adam is a smart, charismatic young man with a promising law career, and an unlikely candidate for tragedy. That his young wife is pregnant with their first child makes the diseases return all the more devastating. Despite the crushing magnitude of his diagnosis and the cruel course of the illness, Adams growing weakness evokes in him an unexpected strength.



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