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What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death
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Author:
Tallu Quinn
Publisher:
Convergent Books
Date:
April 19, 2022
Nonprofit leader and minister Tallu Schuyler Quinn spent her adult life working to alleviate hunger, systemic inequality, and food waste, first as a volunteer throughout the United States and abroad, and then as the founder of the Nashville Food Project, where she supported the vibrant community work of local food justice in Middle Tennessee. That all changed just after her fortieth birthday, when she was diagnosed with stage IV glioblastoma, an aggressive form of terminal brain cancer.
What The Reviewers Say
Through descriptive prose, [Quinn] shares the beauty she finds everywhere.
There are moments of pathos, but far fewer than the author deserves to air. Instead, the narrative becomes a prayer to life, with a conclusion comforting anyone on the path to death—which is to say, all of us—that imagines what she might become in the afterlife.
... devastating.
