How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences
- 2020 INDIES Winner
- Gold, Autobiography & Memoir (Adult Nonfiction)
- 2020 INDIES Finalist
- Finalist, Humor (Adult Nonfiction)
Many are haunted and obsessed by their own eventual deaths, but perhaps no one as much as Sue William Silverman. This thematically linked collection of essays charts Silverman’s attempt to confront her fears of that ultimate unknown. Her dread was fomented in part by a sexual assault, hidden for years, that led to an awareness that death and sex are in some ways inextricable, an everyday reality many women know too well.
