Carol Levine directs the United Hospital Fund's Families and Health Care Project. She is a former editor of the Hastings Center Report. In 1993 she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for her work in AIDS policy and ethics. She edited Always On Call: When Illness Turns Families into Caregivers (2nd edition, Vanderbilt University Press, 2004).
"[Living in the Land of Limbo's] editor, Carol Levine, hopes that
carers lying awake at night will dip into the book for 'a new
perspective.' She aims to avoid consoling stereotypes and instead
to choose fiction 'unvarnished by societal ideals of what
caregivers should feel and do.' At its best, her selection achieves
and outstrips this aim. . . . Levine's book is a generous and
well-informed attempt to clear a space for insight and
self-reflection for some of the busiest people in the world."
--Times Literary Supplement
"[A] provoking and delicate contemporary collection that showcases
a variety of short fiction and poetry from some of the best
writers."
--Times Leader
"This book is an engrossing and insightful read that can be
recommended to anyone wishing to enrich their understanding of the
caregivers' predicament--the worries, isolation, uncertainty, and
losses as well as the satisfactions. The brevity and completeness
of the selections reduce the time commitment and are likely to
stimulate reflections on and connections with one's own
experience."
--The Gerontologist
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