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Cheri

Name: Cheri
Author: Jo Ann Beard

'Too good to miss' Anne Enright, Guardian

Jo Ann Beard

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An Irish Times Book of the Year 2023

'An extraordinary achievement' Mary Gaitskill

'In the hands of a maestro, less can be so much more' Independent

Cheri has been living with cancer for many years. Now, she is dying. As she navigates the final weeks of her life, and takes charge of the manner of her death, she is flooded with childhood memories, and returns to the present with a renewed appreciation for the brilliance of life around her: the autumn has never been so beautiful, her daughters never as radiant. Brave, incredibly strong and deeply loved, Cheri makes one last nerve-wracking journey across the country with her girls and her friends, knowing relief waits welcoming as a frozen lake on the other side.

A masterpiece of fiction and memory, Cheri is a heart-breaking but glorious celebration of all the moments of beauty and pain that make an individual life, right up until its very last moments.

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s inescapable cruelites and woes she offers the wisdom of a sage
Beard honours the beautiful, the sacred, and the comic in life, and for life'

Extraordinary and powerful

s vocabulary is luminous ... Beard combines the lapidary chill of Joan Didion with the sense of a proper, lived humanity that you get from a writer like Grace Paley or Sigrid Nunez. She is good company. She connects. You should read her and not look away
Cheri is richly packed. The details are laid before the reader with a simplicity that feels like grace. Beard'

Profoundly sad, poignant, and filled with the flabbergasting abundance of life ... an extraordinary achievement

s beautiful & sad & dignified
I was shocked by my emotional response to it. It'

s writing is majestic and ultimately offers some hope, because the book is essentially less about death and more about what it is to be alive ... In the hands of a maestro, less can be so much more
Beard'

A gem of a book ... Beard communicates, quietly and almost plainly, a breathless desperation for life and all its terrible beauty

As controlled and convincing as art

A tour de force ... feels like a bravura attempt to rescue Cheri from the loneliness of her death

Jo Ann Beard is a formidable talent. Her writing is darkly moving, full of audacious narrative surprises, and, at times, unexpectedly - almost unbearably - suspenseful

Taut and troubling ... rendered with exquisite restraint and precision ... as powerful as the close of The Death of Ivan Ilyich

s wry voice and her clear-eyed compassion make her the best sort of company
Beard'

Cheri is a masterpiece

A rare talent, and a magnificent writer ... She is extraordinary

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