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Books about Women and Illness, Aging and Death






What I Thought I Knew:  A Memoir (2009), Alice E Cohen

The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), Joan Didion

Growing Older:  A Chronicle of Death, Life and Vegetables (2010), Joan Dye

Walking Nature Home:  A Life's Journey (2009), Susan Tweit

I feel Bad About My Neck:  And Other Thoughts on being a Woman.  (2008).  Nora Ephron

Manic:  A Memoir (2008) Terri Cheney

The Woman Said Yes. (1976).  Jessamyn West

The End of Your Life Book Club (2012).  Will Schwallbe

The Still Point of the Turning World (2013) Emily Rapp

What Makes Olga Run? (2014). Bruce Grierson.

Where the Light Gets In. (2017). Kimberly Willima-Paisley.

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