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The Stuff of Life
The Stuff of Life
The Stuff of Life
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The Oregon Book Awards presented the Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction to Karen Karbo for The Stuff of Life.
When Karen Karbo's father, a charming, taciturn Clint Eastwood type who lives in a triple-wide in the Nevada desert, is diagnosed with lung cancer, his only daughter rises to the challenge of caring for him. Neither of them is exactly cut out for the job. As Dick Karbo's disease progresses, Karen finds herself sometimes the responsible adult, sometimes a stubborn teenager all over again. But in the end, what father and daughter discover more than anything is the love and the toughness that makes them alike.
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Release dateDec 11, 2008
ISBN9781596918252
The Stuff of Life
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Karen Karbo

Karen Karbo is the author of 14 award-winning novels, memoirs, and works of nonfiction. Her adult novels have all been named New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Her genre-bending Kick Ass Women series, including the international best seller The Gospel According to Coco Chanel, mingles biography, memoir, philosophy, humor, and self-help to examine how we should live. Her most recent book, In Praise of Difficult Women, was an national bestseller. Her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in Elle, Vogue, Marie Claire, Outside, O, the New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon.com, and other magazines.  Visit her online at karenkarbo.com. 

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    As a generation of baby boomers faces the aging of their parents, Karen Karbo's readable memoir tells the intimate story of a grown up daughter and a reserved father as they journey through the last months of his life. This memoir is funny, easy to read and has a lot to say about how important it is to just be yourself, and do what you can for the people you love. It's not about death but about how we cope with the uncertainty of what death brings.

    This was the selection of my face to face book club this month and while initially unenthused, I'm glad I read it. I'm not coping with the death of a loved one but if I was I would find it to be a realistic recounting that is both comforting and humanizing.

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