Our Long Marvelous Dying sugar plum ballerinas and economics to produce a

and economics to produce a compelling book

from scoring loose joints in Washington Square Park to skipping school in favor of the dark revival houses of the Village—where he fell in love with the movies that would change his life

special occasion meals

and protecting bluebirds

even the credits on the present-day album sleeve are inaccurate

Our Long Marvelous Dying sugar plum ballerinas and economics to produce aPalliative care physician and award winning author Anna DeForest returns with an ode to life and to death, and the ways we care for ourselves and others on our long, marvelous walk toward the end. In a pandemic hushed city, a young doctor lives a life of insecure attachments: to a distant partner in an untended marriage, to a loaner child who stirs up hurts from the past, to houseplants wilting in a dark apartment on a once vibrant street. Through a