Watching her fade away

After reading in one day the wonderfully moving memoir by New York Times writer and author David Rieff about his dead mother Susan Sontag – Swimming in a Sea of Death aims to articulate the struggles of a child coping with a parent who simply can’t face the reality of death from cancer – he speaks here about the work:

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