Discuss the book Being Esther by Miriam Karmel

In spare, refreshingly unsentimental prose, Miriam Karmel has given us one of literature’s finest portraits of the last days of a woman’s life. Born to parents who fled the shtetl, Esther Lustig has led a seemingly conventional life of marriage, two children, a life in suburban Chicago. Now, at the age of eighty-five, her husband is deceased, her children have families of their own, and most of her friends are gone. Being Esther is an exploration of aging, a search for meaning and better roadmaps for growing old.