THE COLLECTED REGRETS OF CLOVER, by Mikki Brammer (Viking, $37)
Clover Brooks is a “death doula”, someone who sits by the beds of the dying, comforting them and helping them prepare for death. When we first meet her, she’s up to her 97th death. She wonders, as do we, how she got to this point: “Thirty-six years without the murder – and going to death cafes: places where “strangers got together to ponder the intricacies of mortality over food and wine”.
