Book Reading, Anna Byrnes

Please join us for a book reading by Anna Byrne,

Author of The Last Caravan: The Power of Community at the End of Life (Caitlin Press) and Seven Year Summer,

Finalist for the Whistler Independent Book Awards.

Death has been Anna Byrne’s most exacting teacher, shaping a life devoted to tenderness, community and end-of-life care. In Last Caravan, a memoir rooted in lived experience and spiritual inquiry, Byrne chronicles how she and two friends accompanied her close friend, Mary Morgan, through a home death with Medical Assistance in Dying, transforming loss into a communal act of care, ritual and beauty.

Drawing on her background in gerontology, psychology, theology, hospice work and her own cancer diagnosis at 32, Byrne argues for a return to community-led deathcare—one grounded in presence rather than urgency.

She is also the author of Seven Year Summer (self-published, 2019), a Whistler Independent Book Awards finalist used in hospice training, and lives in qathet, BC, where she coordinates hospice services. Byrne also co-founded Community-Supported Dying qathet.

Anna will also be one of the facilitator's at our Volunteer Training which starts this Saturday, Sept 12th, as she's done for the past two trainings.