Relationships between stepfathers and stepdaughters can be unfathomably complex. When Christin's stepfather reaches the end of a final cancer diagnosis and is told that he has only three to six months to live, she is suddenly invited into his dying process, a role she never expected to play. During his last five, heartbreakingly beautiful days, as he prepares to die, they discover a closeness and trust that can only be shared between father and daughter. Set in the deep south along the Texas Gulf Coast, where the cara cara hunt and the resurrection ferns mysteriously revive, 5 days: A Lifetime of Love in Seven Thousand Two Hundred Minutes is a poetic memoir that tells the story of vulnerability, bravery, the humility it takes to forgive and how it is never ever too late, to live or to love.