The Big C

Five months after nearly dying in Puerto Rico, Cathy is at home in Minneapolis recovering from brain surgery and looking forward to celebrating Adam’s 16th birthday. With Paul preparing to set off on a book tour, Cathy struggles to fulfill her obligations to her students. But after her unconventional lesson plans spark criticism from her principal, Connie Schuler, she’s ordered to toe the line...

Five months after nearly dying in Puerto Rico, Cathy is at home in Minneapolis recovering from brain surgery and looking forward to celebrating Adam’s 16th birthday. With Paul preparing to set off on a book tour, Cathy struggles to fulfill her obligations to her students. But after her unconventional lesson plans spark criticism from her principal, Connie Schuler, she’s ordered to toe the line...

Having stopped chemotherapy and accepted her fate, Cathy starts getting rid of all her old clothes, including her wedding dress. While unloading her castoffs at a consignment store, Cathy realizes that she’s lost the feeling in one leg and is forced to start using a cane. Desperate to get a passing grade in chemistry, Adam asks his tutor, Lydia Hye, if she’ll get him the questions before his...

Having stopped chemotherapy and accepted her fate, Cathy starts getting rid of all her old clothes, including her wedding dress. While unloading her castoffs at a consignment store, Cathy realizes that she’s lost the feeling in one leg and is forced to start using a cane. Desperate to get a passing grade in chemistry, Adam asks his tutor, Lydia Hye, if she’ll get him the questions before his...

As her cancer gets worse now that she’s stopped chemotherapy, Cathy takes her family on a hair-raising car ride to the hospice where she’s going to die. When her new roommate Nan warns her about the hospice cat Bethany, who can sense who is going to die next, they agree to kill each other once it’s clear that the time has finally come. Overhearing the staff talking cruelly behind their backs,...

As her cancer gets worse now that she’s stopped chemotherapy, Cathy takes her family on a hair-raising car ride to the hospice where she’s going to die. When her new roommate Nan warns her about the hospice cat Bethany, who can sense who is going to die next, they agree to kill each other once it’s clear that the time has finally come. Overhearing the staff talking cruelly behind their backs,...

While making plans for her funeral, as she works though the things that are left to do before she dies, Cathy learns her insurance coverage for the hospice has run out and she will have to return home by the end of the week. Though everyone else sees it as a blessing, Cathy doesn’t and quietly resolves not to die at home. After asking a priest, a rabbi and an imam to help explain what’s going...

While making plans for her funeral, as she works though the things that are left to do before she dies, Cathy learns her insurance coverage for the hospice has run out and she will have to return home by the end of the week. Though everyone else sees it as a blessing, Cathy doesn’t and quietly resolves not to die at home. After asking a priest, a rabbi and an imam to help explain what’s going...