A beautiful story of a family's (especially one kid's) reaction to the father's terminal cancer. It's sad but also beautiful, realistic, and interesting. It looks at how we try to keep a piece of people with us - a ghost, if you will. ( )

My word, what did I miss in this?! Everyone else loves it, but I just didn't even though the setting only a few miles from here had set me up to really get into it. ( )

A beautiful, tender, and emotionally true story about a young girl coping with her father’s terminal illness and the measures she takes to preserve his memory. For me, the loveliest book in recent memory. ( )

This is an interesting narrative of a Nova Scotia family dealing with the father's premature death from cancer at 40 years old. The story focuses on the hospital visits and how the different family members cope with the man's terminal illness. The father himself is self deprecating and witty, so his banter keeps the visits light hearted. The daughter copes by recording her father's voice and planning on sending the audio files out on the internet as a virus so they be stored in hidden files until they are discovered. It's an intelligent witty book that deals with accepting death without being depressing. ( )

How do you take a subject that has been written about many times before. And make it new and fresh?
Read this book, and you will see why readers are responding so positively to just such a book. A father dying, asking to die in the place he was raised, Nova Scotia. So his family who loves him dearly, wanting to honor his last wishes, does just that. Father in hospital, mother and daughter, young son attempt to fill his last days with humor, and a great deal of love. His daughter who will miss him dearly goes even further. She has plans, ideas and a way to make her father's last words last forever.

A sadly but beautiful look at a family that is so filled with love, even during this trying and devastating time. The book is starkly written, short matter of fact paragraphs and yet they convey so much emotion. This is a family that cold be torn apart by the death of a loved one but instead due to the mind of an amazing daughter have a chance to survive and even to thrive.

The cover is absolutely gorgeous, covers do attract, but sometimes what is within can disappoint. This one lives up to the the beauty of the cover by giving the readers a wonderful and heartfelt story.

ARC from Netgalley. ( )