A moving and life affirming memoir

South African author Helena Kriel is a Hollywood script writer whose lively, colourful and slightly eccentric family lives in Joburg. When her beloved brother Evan is diagnosed with HIV/aids she returns home to be with him in the family home on his final journey. This is not a morbid book, it is a beautifully and eloquently told story, radiating love and life. Vulnerable and real, Helena turns the family tragedy into the stuff of life. Her descriptions of Joburg, Los Angeles and India radiate sensitivity and poetry. I enjoyed this book way more than I expected.