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This is How People Die

by Will Cathcart

Beyond the waiting room

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Beyond the waiting room

Scoot and Hannah’s lives are shaped by cystic fibrosis and confinement in a modern sanitarium in downtown Charleston. When Hannah leaves a final dare, Scoot follows it beyond the waiting room, with the path described stretching from a Paris museum associated with George Sand to a Polish cathedral. The premise sets the limits imposed by illness against an act of defiance and movement through unfamiliar places. Its central concerns include mortality, confinement, and the refusal to fade quietly.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in literary fiction centered on illness and mortality.
  • Readers drawn to stories about defiance and journeys across European settings.

Themes

Illness and mortalityConfinement and freedomDefiance

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Book overview

Scoot and Hannah are cystic fibrosis patients secluded in a modern sanitarium in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, alive past their expiration dates and unwilling to fade quietly. When Hannah leaves behind a final dare, Scoot follows her far beyond the tyranny of the waiting room, leaping from a Paris museum haunted by George Sand to a Polish cathedral where he steals the heart of Fr

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