The Last Caravan
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Author Anna Byrne's close friend Mary Morgan spent her life looking for community. As a youth, the pain of Mary's mother's death is made more difficult by her family's silent grief, financial problems and disapproval of her identity as a lesbian. At 17, Mary leaves her troubled home in Toronto to live among the Guna peoples of Panama-- an adventure that ignites four decades of social justice work in war-torn countries around the globe. Flying kites with Bedouin children, smoking with Bosnian men, and resisting the Guatemalan Civil War alongside Maya women offers Mary a powerful salve for her yearning to belong: Chosen family-- communities based on mutual values and support. When faced with a terminal diagnosis while living in a remote British Columbian town with few resources, Mary brings the heart of her life's work-- the power of ordinary people to effect change-- to bear on her dying. In addition to Anna, she asks two other friends-- Jules, and Laurie-- to be her " dying team" and help her to die at home. Over 16 months, until her death with Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID), the team embarks on a profound experiment to curate Mary's vision of a death steeped in beauty, ceremony, and practical support through building a casket, hosting a home vigil, and transporting her body for a green burial. The journey to bring tenderness and creativity to one person's suffering emerges as an antidote to the urgency, scarcity, and loneliness that seek to define our lives-- and deaths. Anna Byrne's The Last Caravan offers a new paradigm for deathcare by returning it to the hands of the community.
The Last Caravan
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9781773861821
- Binding
- Paperback
- Authors
- Anna Byrne
- Publisher
- Caitlin Press
- Published Date
- August 20, 2026
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 240
- Physical Info
- 0.71 in H x 9.01 in L x 6.01 in W (0.85 lb)