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Poet, essayist, and memoirist meghan orourke was born in brooklyn, new york in 1976. O rourke s book, the long goodbye, a memoir of grief and mourning written after the death of her mother, was published to wide critical acclaim in april 2011. After her mother died of cancer at the age of fiftyfive. The mysteries of chronic illness radcliffe institute for. The chicago public library would like to thank the great books foundation, a nonprofit educational organization based in chicago, for contributing these questions. That seemingly simple observation is just one of the many profound thoughts in meghan orourkes the long goodbye riverhead, an achingly moving memoir about he. We read books on the porch all afternoon, she writes in the prologue to the long goodbye, recounting the summers of her childhood.
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