Dana Douglass

A Matter of Death and Life

History & Biography

“In a moving and insightful book about caring for an elderly, dying parent, Alice Hildebrand weaves stories of faith, stories of Jesus’s compassionate ministry, with stories of her own efforts to be a loving daughter, an understanding wife, and a faithful disciple. Mostly she succeeds at the task, occasionally she fails, always she relates the journey clearly, beautifully, and in a way that leads the reader to consider how they would manage if asked to travel a similar path. Rarely does one encounter writing that is this honest, so intensely self-aware, and as touching as what one confronts in A Matter of Death and Life.”