
The Bright Hour
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"Stunning…heartrending…this year's When Breath Becomes Air." ?Nora Krug, The Washington Post
"Beautiful and haunting." ?Matt McCarthy, MD, USA TODAY
"Vivid, immediate." ?Laura Collins-Hughes, The Boston Globe
The New York Times bestseller by poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, is "a stunning…heart-rending meditation on life…It is this year's When Breath Becomes Air" (The Washington Post).
We are breathless but we love the days. They are promises. They are the only way to walk from one night to the other.
Poet and essayist Nina Riggs was just thirty-seven years old when initially diagnosed with breast cancer?one small spot. Within a year, she received the devastating news that her cancer was terminal.
How does a dying person learn to live each day "unattached to outcome"? How does one approach the moments, big and small, with both love and honesty? How does a young mother and wife prepare her two young children and adored husband for a loss that will shape the rest of their lives? How do we want to be remembered?
Exploring motherhood, marriage, friendship, and memory, Nina asks: What makes a meaningful life when one has limited time? "Profound and poignant" (Oprah Daily), The Bright Hour is about how to make the most of all the days, even the painful ones. It's about the way literature, especially Nina's direct ancestor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and her other muse, Montaigne, can be a balm and a form of prayer.
Brilliantly written and exceptionally moving, it's a "deeply affecting memoir, a simultaneously heartbreaking and funny account of living with loss and the specter of death. As Riggs lyrically, unflinchingly details her reality, she finds beauty and truth that comfort even amid the crushing sadness" (People).
Tender and heartwarming, The Bright Hour "is a gentle reminder to cherish each day" (Entertainment Weekly) and offers us this important perspective: "You can read a multitude books about how to die, but Riggs, a dying woman, will show you how to live" (The New York Times Book Review).
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- Intro
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Prologue: The Bike Ride
- Stage One
- Chapter 1: One Small Spot
- Chapter 2: World of Trouble
- Chapter 3: The Punnett Square
- Chapter 4: Nothing Good
- Chapter 5: www.heyninariggseverythingisgoingtobeok.com
- Chapter 6: Nonplussed
- Chapter 7: At Chemo School
- Chapter 8: In the Chemo Bay
- Chapter 9: Suspicious Country
- Chapter 10: I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)
- Chapter 11: Dancing with Myself
- Chapter 12: The Poetry Fox
- Chapter 13: Dasein
- Chapter 14: The Transparent Eyeball
- Chapter 15: Shave
- Chapter 16: Empty Ocean
- Chapter 17: Fire Alarm
- Chapter 18: Advanced Directive
- Chapter 19: In the Dark
- Chapter 20: More Steroids
- Chapter 21: Book Club
- Chapter 22: Beastie Cats
- Stage Two
- Chapter 1: Something Gray Like Grief
- Chapter 2: Occult Tumor
- Chapter 3: Dispatch from the Dark
- Chapter 4: Say Please
- Chapter 5: Mother and Daughter Tour Italy
- Chapter 6: Pilgrim
- Chapter 7: Damaged Goods
- Chapter 8: Drama
- Chapter 9: Geography
- Chapter 10: The Wolf's Lair
- Chapter 11: Memory of Elephants
- Chapter 12: Reconnoitering the Edge
- Chapter 13: Party Sampler
- Chapter 14: The Toll Collector
- Chapter 15: Nowhere
- Chapter 16: Personals
- Chapter 17: Tumor Board
- Chapter 18: Hospice
- Chapter 19: The Blade
- Chapter 20: The Purple House
- Chapter 21: The Nipple Highway
- Chapter 22: Myopia
- Chapter 23: Album
- Stage Three
- Chapter 1: Fifteen Signs Death Is Near
- Chapter 2: What You're Afraid to Do
- Chapter 3: Something New Is About to Begin
- Chapter 4: The Crematorium
- Chapter 5: Plunder
- Chapter 6: Red Devil
- Chapter 7: Labor Day
- Chapter 8: Summer House
- Chapter 9: Reconstruction
- Chapter 10: Red Face
- Chapter 11: The Ache
- Chapter 12: The Little Brick House
- Chapter 13: Kind of Blue
- Chapter 14: Redemption
- Chapter 15: Twilight Zone
- Chapter 16: Symmetry
- Chapter 17: Not Men-o'-War
- Chapter 18: The Machine
- Chapter 19: Level 00
- Chapter 20: Its Very Nature
- Stage Four
- Chapter 1: Darkest Day
- Chapter 2: Helicopter
- Chapter 3: Little Disc of Ruin
- Chapter 4: The Perfect Couch
- Chapter 5: Bright Spots
- Chapter 6: Vigipirate
- Chapter 7: What Death Is
- Chapter 8: Intervention
- Chapter 9: The Point toward Which You Were Constantly Heading
- Chapter 10: The Bridge
- Chapter 11: Embers
- Chapter 12: What Would Natalie Portman Do?
- Chapter 13: Off Battleground Avenue
- Chapter 14: Camp Radiation
- Chapter 15: The List
- Chapter 16: Jump Around
- Chapter 17: The Hit Woman
- Chapter 18: Adult Supervision
- Chapter 19: Lyla
- Chapter 20: The Anniversary
- Chapter 21: Item 18-B
- Chapter 22: Faith
- Chapter 23: The Reaper
- Chapter 24: Heavy Debris
- Chapter 25: XXX
- Chapter 26: The Fireplace
- Chapter 27: Well of Mercy
- Chapter 28: The Ride Home
- Chapter 29: Memento mori
- Chapter 30: Tumor Burden
- Chapter 31: Scrummle
- Chapter 32: The Bright Hour
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright
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