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Maryanne O'Hara

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Author, grieving mother, quotidian philosopher, optimist ✨

LITTLE MATCHES, A Memoir of Grief and Light, published by HarperOne Books, is now on sale.

It is a People Magazine Book of the Week and my story has been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Psychology Today, Kirkus, and TIME Magazine.

LITTLE MATCHES is inspired by 9LivesNotes.com, a blog that I kept while my daughter Caitlin was waiting for a lung transplant. Since Caitlin’s passing, I have also been certified by the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine as an end-of-life doula, so that I may better speak to the state of end-of-life care in our culture.

I am also the author of the novel CASCADE, which was the Boston Globe Book Club’s inaugural pick and a fina ...more

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	Cascade 3.59 avg rating — 1,739 ratings — published 2012 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Matches: A Memoir of Finding Light in the Dark 4.40 avg rating — 358 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead in Good Company: A Celebration of Mount Auburn Cemetery by John Harrison, Kim Nagy (Editor), Christopher Keane 3.45 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Cascade, the town in my novel of the same name, is loosely based on four towns in Massachusetts that were flooded in the 1930s to create a vast reservoir. Recently, an irate reader wrote to ask why I had invented a fictional town. “I would have enjoyed this book much more if you had chosen one of the four real towns for the setting!”

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