Life events

Resource Information

The work Life events represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Life events

Statement of responsibility

Karolina Waclawiak

Creator

• Waclawiak, Karolina, 1979-

Author

• Waclawiak, Karolina, 1979-

Subject

• Death -- Fiction
• Death -- Social aspects -- Fiction
• Fellowship -- Fiction
• Assisted suicide -- Fiction
• Self-realization in women -- Fiction
• Terminally ill -- Fiction
• Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
• California -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"[This] novel follows Evelyn, who, at thirty-seven, is on the verge of divorce and anxiously dreading the death of everyone she loves. She combats her existential crisis by avoiding her husband and aimlessly driving along the freeways of California looking for an escape - one that eventually comes when she discovers a collective of "exit guides." Evelyn enrolls in their training course, where she learns to provide companionship and a final exit for terminally ill patients seeking a conscious departure. She meets Daphne, a dying woman still full of life; Lawrence, an aging porn king; and Daniel, who seems too young to die and whom Evelyn falls for, despite knowing better, not to mention the exit guide code. Each client opens something new in Evelyn, allowing her a chance to access her own grief and confront the self-destructive ways she suppresses her pain. When Evelyn travels through the Southwest to an afterlife convention to further her death education, she must finally face her complicated relationship with her alcoholic father and reconcile her life choices."--Publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult