Let Me Down Easy (TCG Edition)

Compiled from dozens of interviews conducted by the author, Anna Deavere Smith&rsquo;s <em>Let Me Down Easy </em>is a bracing, tender, melancholy, and triumphant exploration of death and dying. The speakers Smith inhabits include healthcare professionals, theologians, artists, athletes, and activists. They speak&nbsp;of the body as a battleground, a tool, a weapon, a joy, a burden. Smith&rsquo;s great gift has always been her ability to break down her subjects&rsquo; defenses and present them in their full, complicated beauty. Whether channeling Lance Armstrong, Lauren Hutton, Peter Gomes, or others who are not in the public eye,&nbsp;Smith reminds us again and again that in learning to die we learn to live.