Dan Chaon is the author of the bestselling novel You Remind Me of Me and the story collections Fitting Ends and Among the Missing. The latter was a finalist for a National Book Award, and was also named one of the year's ten best books by the American Library Association and the New York Times. He lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio and teaches creative writing at Oberlin College.
“Don’t worry, I’m not dying,” said my wife Sheila. But she was. This was about three days before it happened, and she sat up in her hospice bed and gave…