A resonant memoir of the methods untimely good-byes echo over time by a writer that has considered every nuance of grief.

At age fourteen, Claire Bidwell Smith-an only child- found that both of her parents had cancer. The fear to become a family of 1 before she came old compels Claire to produce a group of fraught choices, established against the glittering backdrop of NY and LA – as well as the pall of regret. When the inevitable happens, and Claire is usually alone in the world, she actually is inconsolable at the revelation that abruptly she actually is no one’s special person. It is only when Claire eventually falls in like, marries, and becomes a mother that she emerges from your fog of grief.

Defying a typical framework, this story is told using the five stages of grief like a window into Smith’s encounter. As in the most effective memoirs, the author’s powerful and exquisite composing renders personal events into universal encounter.