One True Thing
Categories: Literature & Fiction
One True Thing is a 1994 novel by Anna Quindlen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist. It was adapted into a 1998 film starring Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, and William Hurt. Ellen Gulden, an ambitious young journalist in New York, is asked by her father to come home and care for her mother, Kate, who is dying of cancer. Caring for her mother changes how Ellen sees both her parents. After Kate dies of a morphine overdose, Ellen is suspected of mercy killing.
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