Wendell and I listened to this book, read by the author, the son of conservative leader William F. Buckley. The book is one long list of incredibly famous people, and their connections to WFB and his wife Patricia. Christopher documents each of their final illnesses, and the agony it was for him to watch them die, one year apart, with a grace and openness that help make sense of grief at the loss of a parent, even when that loss is expected, and even when there are moments when you might wish the parent could be freed from their suffering. It dealt with faith, the after-life, hope, despair, orphanhood, the difficulty of pleasing a demanding parent, and all with incredible laugh-out-loud moments of humor and pathos. You get to see an inside view of some very interesting people: Gore Vidal, Henry Kissinger, George Bush (both of them), Ronald Reagan, George McGovern. I'm not sure if the experience would be quite the same if the author weren't reading the book himself, and if you were reading it instead, but it would definitely be worth a try.