The Stuff of Life
| By: | Karen Karbo |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury USA |
| Print ISBN: | 9781582344454 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781596918252 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2008 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The Oregon Book Awards presented the Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction to Karen Karbo for The Stuff of Life.
When Karen Karbo's father, a charming, taciturn Clint Eastwood type who lives in a triple-wide in the Nevada desert, is diagnosed with lung cancer, his only daughter rises to the challenge of caring for him. Neither of them is exactly cut out for the job. As Dick Karbo's disease progresses, Karen finds herself sometimes the responsible adult, sometimes a stubborn teenager all over again. But in the end, what father and daughter discover more than anything is the love and the toughness that makes them alike.