![]() ![]() ![]() Do we hold on to our parents, or are we holding on to our status as children who are immune from death?” “It gets harder and harder to deny your own death. She feels “despondent, deranged, depressed.” She muses about how as you get older, many people who have been a part of your life start dying off: Being surrounded by all these signs of aging and death makes Vanessa almost desperate to affirm life. It even includes, in the plot, a trip to India to gain enlightenment.įear of Dying is narrated by Vanessa Wonderman, a 60-year-old former actress dealing with some difficult issues: a daughter who is struggling with substance abuse problems and suicidal tendencies dying parents and a husband who is 25 years older and no longer much of a sexual partner. ![]() Indeed, it’s hard to feel like you have left the Seventies when you are reading this book. How many of us grew up in some ways with Erica Jong and Fear of Flying? For me, coming back to Erica Jong felt a bit like hearing a song from your college days on the radio it brings back memories that make you happy, maybe just because you were younger then. ![]()
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