TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oates, Joyce Carol,
TI  - Breathe: a novel 
SN  - 9780063085473
AV  - PS3565.A8 B74 2021
U1  - 813/.54 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  -  Harper Collins
KW  - Married people
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Sick
KW  - Terminally ill
KW  - Diagnostic errors
KW  - First loves
KW  - Loss (Psychology)
KW  - Widows
KW  - New Mexico
KW  - Domestic fiction
N2  - "Amid a starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape in New Mexico, a married couple from Cambridge, MA takes residency at a distinguished academic institute. When the husband is stricken with a mysterious illness, misdiagnosed at first, their lives are uprooted and husband and wife each embarks upon a nightmare journey. At thirty-seven, Michaela faces the terrifying prospect of widowhood - and the loss of Gerard, whose identity has greatly shaped her own"--; At thirty-seven, Michaela faces the terrifying prospect of widowhood... and the loss of Gerard, whose identity has greatly shaped her own. They moved from Cambridge, MA to take residency at a distinguished academic institute in New Mexico. Gerard's mysterious illness, misdiagnosed at first, has uprooted their lives, but Michaela cares desperately for Gerard in his final days as she comes to realize that her love for her husband, however fierce and selfless, is not enough to save him. -- Adapted from jacket
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