Angela Nissel, previously known for _The Broke Diaries_, brings her self-reflection to the subject of her mother's swift decline and death from breast cancer, now some years ago. It's a difficult story to which she brings a good deal of thoughtfulness and humor to her reflections on her mother's experience both as a cancer patient and as a Black woman and on her own experience as a caretaker and then a mourner (that her mother ultimately dies is no secret, as it is in the very title). The book is engaging enough and a fairly quick read, and it will be particularly valuable to those who have dealt with similar experiences of caretaking and loss, but the window into this experience is valuable even for those who have not yet been forced to share something similar.