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Nov 20, 2023<\/p>\n
Daniel McInerny joins the podcast to discuss Publisher\u2019s description for the novel:<\/p>\n Kate Montclair is When she sees an But Adele Links<\/strong><\/p>\n Daniel McInerny, The Good Death of Kate The Comic Muse http:\/\/www.danielmcinerny.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n SIGN UP for Catholic Culture’s newsletter: DONATE to make this show possible! http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nhis novel, The Good Death of Kate Montclair<\/em>, the modern
\ncult of authenticity, the desire for control that tempts people to
\neuthanasia, and what it truly means to accept your death.<\/p>\n
\ndying. She has arrived at late middle age loveless, childless, and
\nhaving failed to achieve the career dreams of her youth. Now
\ndiagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, she sees the next
\nfourteen months of suffering as an intolerable prospect. Kate is
\ndesperate\u2014not only for a miracle cure, but for some sense that her
\nlife, and life itself, amounts to something more than a
\ncatastrophe.<\/p>\n
\nadvertisement for the Washington, DC Death Symposium, Kate
\ninvestigates and learns that the monthly discussion group is led by
\nnone other than the idealistic and inimitable Adele Schraeder, an
\nold friend she has not seen since their teaching days in Rome. On
\nAdele\u2019s advice, Kate soon decides to break Virginia law with an
\nassisted suicide.<\/p>\n
\nSchraeder is not the only person Kate reconnects with at the Death
\nSymposium. Also present is Benedict Aquila, another friend from
\nRome, who has been living in DC while nursing his mother through
\nher final illness. And then there is the strange, mentally ill
\nstreet woman sitting in the corner, drawing pad in hand. Who is
\nshe? She is the Ariadne\u2019s thread that will lead Kate on a journey
\nback through the years to her youth, forcing her to come to grips
\nwith the love affair she had with a married man and the catastrophe
\nthat took his life.<\/p>\n
\nMontclair<\/em>
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