The end of your life book club, by Will Schwalbe

When Schwalbe’s remarkable mother, Mary Anne, is diagnosed in her early seventies with advanced pancreatic cancer, the two turn her lengthy chemo sessions into a book club where they both read and discuss the same books.  Mary Anne was not only an actress, an educator at several prestigious schools and the first female admissions director at Harvard and Radcliffe; she left those jobs to take on a much more challenging task, as founding director of the Women’s Refugee Commission.  Her son obviously both admired and loved her and found writing this book cathartic.  Don’t necessarily read it as a guide for reading, but as a tribute to an interesting woman.   336 pp