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Book Review of One True Thing

One True Thing
One True Thing
Author: Anna Quindlen
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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At the center of this novel is a grown daughter's relationship with her two parents, as she puts her career on hold to care for her mother, who has cancer. Questions: Is euthanasia ever justified? Is it o.k., in the 1990s, for a woman to be "just" a wife and mother?