1.   Babies wail over their dying mothers.

2.   A novel about a journalist and her dying mother.

3.   Don Jose leaves to be with his dying mother.

4.   In an isolated landscape, a young man tends his dying mother.

5.   It is emotionally gripping, however, only in spurts, most memorably when Juan and his dying mother sing a plaintive, elegiac duet.

6.   Ruth Smith said a telephone call from prison had been a way for her cousin to speak to his dying mother.

7.   She left the apartment, however, after learning that authorities knew she had been visiting her dying mother at a Houston-area hospital, investigators said.

8.   She nursed her dying mother while working as a part-time secretary and attending a local technical college.

9.   She turned it down to stay in the village and care for her dying mother.

10.   The novel concerns the relationship between brothers, one of them living in New Hampshire and caring for their dying mother.