‘While My Sister Sleeps’: Death is inevitable

These questions are just some of the things that haunted the Snow family after a tragic accident in the novel ‘While My Sister Sleeps’ by Barbara Delinsky. The eldest child Robin Snow, a famed marathoner, suffered a heart attack — unable to regain consciousness.

While her sister is asleep and as her parents take in the situation, Molly steps up for her family. She goes on living for them and becomes the voice for her sister. As she searches for things that would make her discover what her sister would want, family secrets are revealed one after another. As mysteries unfold, relationships are restored and hard decisions are made.

This book is an eye opener that death is inevitable. That we are fragile beings and no matter how invincible we think we are, we can all disappear in a blink of an eye. Even before we depart this world, we should make every effort to use our time on things that matter that we should never underestimate sending our love to our family and friends.

— The reader is based in Dubai.