Watching My Friend Die: The Honest Death of Bob Schwartz

Most spiritual memoirs are written by religious professionals. The American Catholic Experience series is an innovative new collection of books exploring the stories of individual Catholics in the United States as they reflect on what it has meant as Catholic laity to live out their faith amidst the joys and challenges of their daily lives?on their jobs, with their families and friends, and in their communities and churches. In Watching My Friend Die, Mark Hare documents the lingering death of his friend, Bob Schwartz, a high school teacher and songwriter, to cancer in the context of the deeply held spiritual convictions of both men.