Nina Riggs (1977–2017)
Autor de The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
Sobre El Autor
Nina Riggs was a poet and author. She received her MFA in poetry in 2004. Her collection of poems, Lucky, Lucky, was published in 2009. She wrote a blog entitled Suspicious Country, where she wrote about living with metastatic breast cancer. She wrote a memoir entitled The Bright Hour. She passed mostrar más away in February 2017. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1977-03-29
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2017-02-26
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- female
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- USA
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- teacher
memoirist
poet - Organizaciones
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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The bright hour : a memoir of living and dying por Nina Riggs
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Beautifully written and gut wrenching, sweet, sad, funny, hopeful, heartbreaking, so,so many emotions while reading this book. I know I will think of Nina from time to time in the years ahead - it's that kind of book- it stays with you.
Memoir of short essays by young woman diagnosed with breast cancer that then progresses to Stage IV terminal diagnosis. The book chronicles her experiences as her own mother dies of cancer during her treatment, with a friend with a similar disease progression, and dealing with her marriage and her young children as life and the disease move on.
It's written very well and conveys her feelings while leaving out most of the terrible details of her illness.
It's written very well and conveys her feelings while leaving out most of the terrible details of her illness.
Brilliant and beautiful. Funny, charming, heartbreaking. Is it weird that I feel proud the author was from Greensboro?! Highly recommended.
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