The End of the Alphabet

My mom recommended this to me as a quick book to read on the flight to Istanbul. I didn't end up reading it on the flight to Istanbul, but about a week afterwards. Thankfully I had nothing to fear; there was no Turkey-necessitated context that I needed to make use of.

The book itself though, ehh. We have two characters whose initials are AZ and ZA, and AZ gets some sort of immediate, incurable disease that's going to kill him in a month. The rest of the book is reflections on their marriage, and coming to terms with the end. Perhaps it's more salient in ones golden years; the message didn't connect with me, but I can see how it might in thirty years or so.