Description

A woman visits a friend who is dying of cancer. Brilliant and stubborn, her friend makes a momentous request. She wishes to end her life on her own terms- and she wants the narrator's help. Stricken, she agrees. 'I promise, says the friend, 'to make it as much fun as possible.' What follows is an extraordinary tale of a friendship given the greatest test: to witness, unflinching, its end. It is also a portrait of the way we live now, in a world endlessly troubled by crisis, and the dramatically changing nature of human relationships in our time.