The Bright Hour

Nina Riggs 2017

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread
terminal illness memoir cancer living

Our Take

Riggs was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer at thirty-eight and wrote about dying with the wit and clarity of someone who refused to be diminished by her prognosis. She died before publication. Every page is an act of defiance.

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