Our Long Marvelous Dying
Gripping but grim ... DeForest has created a bleak yet powerful account of the toll of dying on family members and health professionals who care for the almost-dead.
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DeForest, themself a palliative care physician, has delivered less an immersive storyline, more a meditation on both life and death leavened by occasional sardonic humor. Short, dark, stylish, sui generis. An idiosyncratic form of fiction, stimulating yet not entirely satisfying.
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Ruminative if underdeveloped ... Without a plot or much character development, readers may have a tough time becoming emotionally invested. Still, DeForest draws from their own experience as a palliative care doctor to write with acute perception about the thin membrane that separates life from death.
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