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How To Be A Friend To A Friend Who's Sick (2013)

by Letty Cottin Pogrebin(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1610392833 (ISBN13: 9781610392839)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

PublicAffairs

review 1: I read this book in preparation for teaching a Sunday School class on the subject of cancer. This is one of the best books I have ever read on the subject. The author covered many different topics in addition to cancer. She writes with compassion but also has a good sense of humor and a great gift for writing. It is THE book to read if one wants to know how to talk to someone with a serious illness.
review 2: A rather wide range of difficulties were covered. The book contains heart warming and heart breaking accounts of deeds by friends, family and people who were sick. Its main asset is providing the etiquette, guidelines in how to behave. In short: ask and act, act and ask, be attentive, show up, pay your respects in person. The writing and substance are ... moresomewhat uneven - from excellent parts about breast cancer to - in my opinion - lacking insight in dementia. The anecdotal character and name dropping disturbed a bit, but the author actually makes it clear from the beginning that this is a layman´s view, based on her experience and interviews.Surprising to me were her uncritical recommendations of marijuana. I really liked many of the stories and comical writing, an example of which: of a Hasidic man, "With that, he clammed up. (Is there an equivalent kosher image?)" less

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