The Stuff of Life: A Daughter's Memoir

The Stuff of Life: A Daughter's Memoir by Karbo, Karen. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781582344454.

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.