Gripping but grim ... DeForest has created a bleak yet powerful account of the toll of dying on family members and health professionals who care for the almost-dead.
DeForest, themself a palliative care physician, has delivered less an immersive storyline, more a meditation on both life and death leavened by occasional sardonic humor. Short, dark, stylish, sui generis. An idiosyncratic form of fiction, stimulating yet not entirely satisfying.
Ruminative if underdeveloped ... Without a plot or much character development, readers may have a tough time becoming emotionally invested. Still, DeForest draws from their own experience as a palliative care doctor to write with acute perception about the thin membrane that separates life from death.
