The Stuff of Life: A Daughter's Memoir

About this book

When Karen Karbos 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 Karbos 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.