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"What exactly are you reading?" That is the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother, Mary Anne, as they sit in the longing room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancers Center. In 2007, Mary Anne went back from a humanitarian visit to Pakistan and Afghanistan suffering from what her doctors thought was a rare type of hepatitis. Calendar months later she was identified as having a form of advanced pancreatic tumors, which is nearly always fatal, often in half a year or less. This is actually the inspiring true story of a boy and his mother, who take up a "book team" that brings them alongside one another as her life involves a close. Over another 2 yrs, Will and Mary Anne keep on discussions that are both wide-ranging and deeply personal, prompted by an eclectic array of books and a shared passion for reading. Their list jumps from typical to popular, from poetry to mysteries, from fantastic to religious. The issues they discuss include questions of beliefs and courage as well as every day topics such as expressing appreciation and learning to listen. Throughout, they are constantly reminded of the energy of books to comfort us, astonish us, educate us, and tell us what we need to do with this lives and in the entire world. Reading isn't the contrary of doing; it is the contrary of dying. Will and Mary Anne promote their expectations and concerns with the other person - and rediscover their lives - through their favorite books. When they read, they aren't a ill person and a well person, but a mother and a boy taking a voyage together. The result is a profoundly moving tale of damage that is also a joyful, and often humorous, party of life: Will's love letter to his mother, and theirs to the printed page.
