<strong>Hospital Time</strong> is a brilliantly crafted memoir about the writers struggle tobear witness to the death of a friend. Hoffmans story written in sho... » 

Hospital Time is a brilliantly crafted memoir about the writers struggle tobear witness to the death of a friend. Hoffmans story written in shortbreathtakingly compressed chapters chronicles life at the center of the AIDSepidemic intense terrifying simultaneously suffused with meaning and empty.Hoffman avoids any cliche of the noble death instead offering us a relentlessview of her own excruciating moral struggles in the face of her disintegratingfamily. Hospital Time moves not in a straight line but like life doeslike AIDS doesunpredictably unforgivingly as a series of overlappinglosses each more devastating than the last.Stephanie Grant author of ThePassion of Alice «