Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. But they do not merely entertain, inform, or distress us—they show us what counts as right or wrong and

It was a glorious passing, throughout the last nearly 24 hours family members sang with her, heard her laugh, and saw her give four okay signs with her hands as

"Neonatal intensive care, prematurity, and complicated pregnancies"--

When Sadie takes a summer job working in the house of teen rock star Jax Stone, she finds herself falling quickly for him, but Jax's wild rock star world makes

Updated second edition: “A bold and imaginative book which moves our thinking about narratives of illness in new directions.” —Sociology of Heath and Illn