Preloading

Our Short History

By Lauren Grodstein

Publisher: Algonquin Books
Pages: 352

After a fatal cancer diagnosis, a single mother begins to write a witty, elegiac book for her 6-year-old in preparation for life without her. But it's when her ex shows up and sparks fly that this darkly humorous death song hits its crescendo.

— Hamilton Cain and Erin Vanderhoof

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