An exquisite memoir about how to live—and love—every day with “death in the room,” from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, comes THE BRIGHT HOUR.

Nina Riggs on the Essay that Changed her Life

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