Dying Times is the story of a successful though conflicted lady
litigator, told with a dark undercurrent of humor that underpins this
striking meditation on dying, and discovering a meaningful approach to
living. Death is all around the lady litigator. It is her loving, wise
mother who, by dying, triggers open hatred within the family. It is her
greedy, irascible but brilliant senior partner at a big downtown law
firm who, while determined to control everything, even his own death,
discovers generosity. It is the last client the senior partner and lady
litigator will share, a man in a wheelchair who is appalling in his need
to wreak ruin on his wife in a monumentally lucrative divorce case. Far
from sombre, the novel is told with a wry wit and a transcendent
tenderness that is fresh and surprising. It is a presentation of raw
reality, with characters navigating the emotions of love on the verge of
abuse and hatred, loyalty on the verge of betrayal, and visceral energy
on the verge of exhaustion. Dying Times frames an important
conversation: We die as individually as we have lived.