An amazingly honest work, where the embellishments more clearly visible being depicted through the author's drawing style than many other memoirs which have only words to work with. You know from the first few pages that it's going to be a difficult ride what with the physical decline and the dying, but the genius of the storytelling is that the things that turn out to be the most difficult are probably not the ones you expected. I found it to be a compelling read told by one of the keenest observers of the human condition. I think it some ways the particular situation the author found herself in was more difficult than many, in other ways maybe a little better than it might have been, but it is clear that when you are going through it what you find is something that will manage to test your limits as a human being in any case. It's easy to see how this had been nominated for the National Book Award the year it came out. It feels destined to be regarded as a future classic.