Tomato Soup and Sourdough is not a book about dying. It is a book about choosing.

Named for the simplest of meals?the kind that steadies trembling hands and calls forth memories of kitchens warm with love?Tomato Soup and Sourdough begins with comfort. With nurturing. With the quiet intimacy of feeding and being fed. And from that humble bowl, it opens into something far braver: a testimony of witness.

At its heart is a death doula who believes she has come to understand the terrain of endings. She has walked others to the threshold. She has held vigil. She has whispered reassurances into dim hospital light. But nothing prepares her for accompanying her dear friend?a woman of fierce intelligence and unsentimental clarity?who decides that sovereignty over her life must include sovereignty over her death.

This is the story of that choice.