The Caregiver

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The Caregiver
288 pages; Simon & Schuster
Park, who succumbed to cancer last year at 41, bequeaths a filigreed novel that follows hospice worker Mara from a dangerous childhood in 1970s Brazil to present-day L.A., where she tends to a dying woman in her 40s, the two sifting through memories and sharing hopes.
— Hamilton Cain