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All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire is a contemporary memoir by Rebecca Woolf that examines the collapse of a marriage, the sudden death of an estranged husband, and the difficult emotional territory that follows. The book is not built as a simple grief narrative. Instead, it explores how illness, resentment, caregiving, relief, motherhood, sexuality, and self-reclamation can exist at the same time. Woolf writes from the perspective of someone who had already reached the point of wanting out of the marriage when her husband was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer, making the emotional stakes unusually complex. The memoir is also notable for the way it questions conventional narrative structure, especially the expectation that stories should move toward a clean climax and resolution. By linking personal experience with formal experimentation, the book becomes both an account of mourning and a reflection on how women are asked to tell their own stories.