Death, Brooklyn, and the Gritty Side of Grace

By: Carolyn Gartner LMSW

Narrated by: Carolyn Ann Gartner

Death, Brooklyn, and the Gritty Side of Grace is a hospice social worker's journey through her internship in the wilds of Brooklyn. It weaves together various patients' stories and the lessons gleaned from them. She meets a man who dies in his family's living room with nowhere for the body to go; a middle-aged man who angrily, tenaciously fights death (and fights his hospice worker); a cancer patient, who is eerily - frighteningly - similar to her. And the unlikely mentor, a Jamaican nurse, whose friendship provides guidance and spiritual insight. Both darkly comic and spiritually uplifting, it's the story of how, immersing herself in death, an irreverent Gen X-er found her life's work.

©2016 Carolyn Ann Gartner (P)2019 Carolyn Ann Gartner

If u love hospice u will line this

It was good but I am wanted more from each case.
I hated the reader and had I not loved the subject I would not have continued listening.

Engaging

A fresh window into a hidden world. Interesting, personable, and insightful. Listen to the sample, you will get hooked.

BSW Student

I am a current BSW student and I really really enjoyed this podcast. Hospice is one of the areas of social work that I would feel privileged to work in one day which I why I gave this a listen! Overall, the stories and insights left me wanting so much more, thank you and well done!