In this courageous and insistently honest collection of poems, Vicki Mandell-King portrays the disparate feelings that arose during the four long years when her mother-in-law was dying: love, annoyance, exhaustion, regret, defiance, fear-even humor. SHRINKING INTO INFINITE SKY gives us all permission to feel those emotions we often think of as bad -emotions that, when worked through, can be transformed into moments of intimacy and grace.