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Karbo, Karen. The Stuff of Life: a Daughter's Memoir.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

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| September 15, 2003 | Engberg, Gillian | COPYRIGHT 2003 American Library Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Oct. 2003. 256p. Bloomsbury, $24.95 (1-58234-183-4). 306.85.

As in her popular Generation Ex: Tales from the Second Wives Club (2000), Karbo's latest finds wisdom and wild humor in "heartcrackingly sad" family stories. When Karbo's father is diagnosed with lung cancer, Karbo becomes his primary caretaker, shuttling between her family in Portland, Oregon, and his triple-wide trailer in the Nevada desert. A stoic, Clint Eastwood type, Karbo's father is a horrible patient, and Karbo, whose mother died of cancer when she was a teenager, doubts her own nursing ...

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