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Marianne Brooker

Intervals

What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne Brooker's mother was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis. She made a workshop of herself and her surroundings, combining creativity and activism in inventive ways. But over time, her ability to work, to move and to live without pain diminished drastically. Determined to die in her own home, on her own terms, she stopped eating and drinking in 2019. In Intervals, Brooker reckons with heartbreak, weaving her first and final memories with a study of doulas, living wills and the precarious economics of social, hospice and funeral care. Blending memoir, polemic and feminist philosophy, Brooker joins writers such as Anne Boyer, Maggie Nelson, Donald Winnicott and Lola Olufemi to raise essential questions about choice and interdependence and, ultimately, to imagine care otherwise.
206 бумажных страниц
Правообладатель
Bookwire
Дата публикации оригинала
2024
Год выхода издания
2024
Издательство
Fitzcarraldo Editions
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  • Sandra Viviana Chisaca Leivaцитирует2 месяца назад
    nerves outwards, and the person whose pain is relational, from the world inwards. My witnessing could only be approximate, contingent. I wasn’t gripped by pain but I chose to sit with it, a choice that my mum wasn’t afforded and perhaps – despite my promises – one she feared I could retract. Loose witnessing is the basis of an important ethical and political demand, no less powerful for its leap of faith. In Ahmed’s words: ‘I must act about that which I cannot know, rather than act insofar as I know. I am moved by what does not belong to me.’
  • Sandra Viviana Chisaca Leivaцитирует2 месяца назад
    It was the first time I’d read a narrative account of watching one’s mother die. Marking it up to teach, I underlined reminders for myself: ‘put a pillow under her knees’, tell her ‘that I loved her so much … you are surrounded in love’. Curious and selfish, I hoped that the book would reveal some great secret to me. Harry’s mother was ‘sick and broke and terrified’, not unlike my own. She chose her suburban condo in place of a Medicaid facility; ‘who could blame her?’ She wanted to die where she had lived and to be crowded in by her
  • Sandra Viviana Chisaca Leivaцитирует2 месяца назад
    I’ve got to prepare,’ wrote Chantal Akerman before her mother died, ‘but how to do that. Had to imagine myself without her. But I didn’t have enough imagination

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