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The Household Guide to Dying is a freshly insightful, hopeful and dramatic novel full of heart and life --- told from the perspective of a household advice columnist, wife and mother who is determined to finish a lifetime's worth of tasks even though she doesn't have a lifetime left to live. Novelist Wally Lamb praised the book, saying, "I think you'll love this life-affirming novel. I did."