We All Want Impossible Things: The funny, moving Richard and Judy Book Club pick 2023

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But the author is also open and honest about the joy we feel and how it commingles with the grief and how happiness and gratitude can coexist with sorrow when she shares:

Here it is! The holy grail of cakes! And it’s so lovely and moist and lemony that it doesn’t even need a lemon drizzle—though who knows what Edi would say.

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Intertwined with the story of Ash caring for Edi in her final weeks is the story of Ash's messy life. This doesn't detract at all from the main thread; they blend and complement each other.

Is it fair to rate a book so harshly just because you despise the main character? I don't know but I am.

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Catherine Newman delivers a stunning story as she chronicles the path of dealing with entering hospice care.

Life is just seesawing between the gorgeous and the menacing – like when you go for a run and one minute the whole neighborhood is lilacs in purple bloom, and then the next it’s stained boxer shorts and an inside-out latex glove.”Best friends since childhood, more than forty years, Edith and Ashley have been through everything together. They know each other better than they know anyone else. Now Edith is dying of ovarian cancer and spending her last days in a hospice facility close to where Ashley lives. As Ash reminisces of her life with Edi, and her life in general, we are treated to a glimpse of the life of a woman who struggles like the rest of us. The beauty of the story though, are the realistically beautiful scenes of friendship and love. You’ll cry laugh. I absolutely hated the author's style of writing. It was just like a bunch of random ass thoughts put together with a hot ass mess of a main character. Ash is extremely annoying. The entire time reading this novel, I just kept thinking, "she needs therapy".. or she just needs to grow tf up. The dark humor throughout the novel got old and annoying fast.