“The Bright Hour,” Nina Riggs’s memoir of her final years as she faced breast cancer at age 39, was published posthumously, in 2017, to critical acclaim and commercial success. “It was kind of stunning.”The story of Lucy Kalanithi and John Duberstein is both unlikely and destined, the stuff of a rom-com. John Duberstein and Lucy Kalanithi at Kalanithi’s home in San Mateo, Calif., where their families gathered to celebrate the new year. Entering into a relationship, Lucy noted, means accepting the possibility of losing your partner. On Dec. 31, Lucy, John and the three kids headed out to visit Paul Kalanithi’s grave, which overlooks the Pacific Ocean.

Source: Washington Post January 03, 2018 18:27 UTC