New Projects.
The Resurrection of Wonder Woman
Eleanor's essay, "The Resurrection of Wonder Woman," tells about the aftereffects of donating her daughter Maya's organs and tissues to strangers in need. Selected from hundreds of entries, it is among 23 essays in a new anthology, Twelve Breaths a Minute, edited by Lee Gutkind, "the godfather of creative nonfiction."
About the anthology Twelve Breaths a Minute, edited by Lee Gutkind
Twelve Breaths a Minute—the latest collaboration between SMU Press and the Creative Nonfiction Foundation, with the support of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation—features twenty- three original, compelling personal narratives that examine the way we as a society care for the dying. Here a poet, a former hospice worker, reflects on death's mysteries; a son wanders the halls of his mother's nursing home, lost in the small absurdities of the place; a grief counselor struggles with losing his own grandfather; a medical intern traces the origins of time and the quality of our final days; a mother anguishes over her decision to turn off her daughter's life support and allow her organs to be harvested; and an emergency dispatcher tries to quantify what a stranger's death should mean.
Praise for Twelve Breaths a Minute:
- "A gripping and passionate account of how we face the final rite of passage. These stories mine
the agility of the human spirit, and will not easily be forgotten."
—Danielle Ofri, author of Medicine in Translation and Singular Intimacies - "This remarkable anthology collects the reflections of family members, nurses, physicians, and
hospice workers as they care for the dying. Readers, who will at some time be in one or more of
these caregiving roles, can learn important and valuable information from these reflections."
—Carol Donley, former co-director of the Center for the Literature, Medicine, and the Health Care Professions
and co-author of Literature and Aging: An Anthology
Essays in Page Break
Page Break: Grandparenting 101
Page Break: Ants, Altruism, and Surviving a Wedding