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Author offers both sides of the story for reader to choose

IN THE mood to contemplate your own mortality? Then Jodi Picoult has the book for you.

The bestselling author’s latest offering, , follows Dawn Edelstein, a former Yale Egyptology student turned death doula. In Dawn’s orbit there’s a whole lot of death, starting with Win, the dying woman she’s caring for, the memories of those Dawn lost and the very, very deceased (as in mummified in Middle Egypt 4

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