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The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
By Riggs, Nina
- ISBN
- 9781501169359 9781501169366
- Publisher
- S. & S.
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Starred Review on April 1, 2017 | Science and Technology
Poet Riggs (Lucky, Lucky) has lived under the shade of both a celebrated and a disheartening family tree. The great-great-great-granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, "one small spot," in her late 30s, and she can name a raft of relatives suffering from the same disease, among them her paternal grandfather. Other family cancers included her mother's...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
