Hospice nurse Hadley Vlahos's memoir shows palliative care teaches as much about how to live your life as how to die. Vlahos recounts the most memorable patients she's worked with and how they each affected her life: a woman who never questioned her faith until death, a man seeing visions of his late daughter, and a young patient regretting how much she cared about others' opinions.

Although hospice is a major theme, don't expect an informative look at hospice care. If you don't know much about hospice, Vlahos does a good job explaining the purpose of hospice and correcting the false impression that hospice is just the last few days of life. However, The In-Between is firmly a memoir centered on Vlahos herself, focusing on how her encounters with patients changed her own life. More spiritual than religious, Vlahos recalls the coincidences she can't explain, believing there is a thin line between this world and the next. Though I wish the author had gone a bit deeper, I found The In-Between to be an enjoyable and uplifting read.