The End of Your Life Book Club

I was so moved by this marvellous book. Schwalbe has done something extraordinary: made a personal journey public in the most engaging, funny and revealing way possible. It is a true meditation on what books can do. - Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesWill Schwalbe gives us two love stories in one: That of his relationship with his dynamo of a mother as her horizons shrink, and that of their mutual devotion to the printed word, infinitely and insistently engaging. Tender and touching and beautifully done. - Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize winning author of CleopatraA perfect book-club book about books and the community they create that also portrays the love between mother and son. - Library JournalWill Schwalbe's brave and soulful elegy to his remarkable mother, his recollection of their sparklingly literate conversations, is a timely reminder that one exceptional person, or one exceptional book, can be a torch in the darkness. You'll turn the last page wishing you'd met Mary Anne Schwalbe, vowing to be worthy of her incandescent example - and promising yourself to read more. - J. R. Moehringer, author of The Tender BarA wonderful book about wonderful books and mothers and sons and the enduring braid between them. Like the printed volumes it celebrates, this story will stay with you long after the last page. - Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays With Morrie and The Time KeeperAt last a book that celebrates the role books play within our own story. Will Schwalbe has created a tender, moving and honest portrayal of the precious relationship between a mother and son - an ode to that beautiful thing called love. - Cecilia Ahern, author of PS, I Love Youan astonishing, pertinent, and wonderfully welcome work. - Publishers Weekly starred reviewAn extraordinarily wise, witty, and quietly wrenching book about parental love, filial love, profound grief, and literature's great consolations. How wonderful to encounter a writer who combines erudition with great emotional honesty, and who isn't afraid of addressing life's most profound and baffling questions. - Douglas Kennedy, author of Leaving the World and The Pursuit of Happiness