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"...This memoir will burrow down deep into your heart, finding its own place of comfort there. I dare you to be able to put it down." -Noley Reid, author of Pretend We Are Lovely

Find a Place for Me is a memoir about facing a marriage's last act-a spouse's death-as…

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In Find A Place For Me, Deirdre Fagan describes with an attentive eye the delicate emotional negotiations between a couple when the husband is diagnosed with ALS.

Life will never be the same and the sense of dislocation is profound. I am deeply affected by this traumatic and irreversible change.

The heartbreak goes from noticing the snacks carefully packed for a trip the family would not be able to take any longer to staring at herself in the bathroom mirror, ‘—as if I were watching someone else’s life in a movie. I wasn’t in my own body.’

But she deals…

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