At age 39, Ariel Gore has everything sheOCOs always a successful writing career, a long-term partnership, a beautiful if tiny home, a daughter in college and a son in preschool. But lifeOCOs happy endings donOCOt always last. If itOCOs not one thing, after all, itOCOs your mother. Her name is Eve. Her epic temper tantrums have already gotten her banned from three cab companies in Portland. And sheOCOs here to announce that sheOCOs dying. ?Pitifully, Ariel, OCO she sighs. ?YouOCOre all I have.OCO Ariel doesnOCOt want to take care of her crazy dying mother, but she knows she will. ItOCOs the right thing to do, isnOCOt it? And, anyway, how long could it go on? ?DonOCOt worry, OCO Eve says. ?If IOCOm ever a burden, IOCOll just blow my brains out.OCO Amidst the chaos of clowns and hospice workers, pie and too much whiskey, ArielOCOs own ten-year relationship begins to unravel. Darkly humorous and intimately human, "The End of Eve" redefines the meaning of family and everything weOCOve ever been taught to call ?love.OCO"
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At age 39, Ariel Gore has everything sheOCOs always a successful writing career, a long-term partnership, a beautiful if tiny home, a daughter in college and a son in preschool. But lifeOCOs happy endings donOCOt always last. If itOCOs not one thing, after all, itOCOs your mother. Her name is Eve. Her epic temper tantrums have already gotten her banned from three cab companies in Portland. And sheOCOs here to announce that sheOCOs dying. ?Pitifully, Ariel, OCO she sighs. ?YouOCOre all I have.OCO Ariel doesnOCOt want to take care of her crazy dying mother, but she knows she will. ItOCOs the right thing to do, isnOCOt it? And, anyway, how long could it go on? ?DonOCOt worry, OCO Eve says. ?If IOCOm ever a burden, IOCOll just blow my brains out.OCO Amidst the chaos of clowns and hospice workers, pie and too much whiskey, ArielOCOs own ten-year relationship begins to unravel. Darkly humorous and intimately human, "The End of Eve" redefines the meaning of family and everything weOCOve ever been taught to call ?love.OCO"