- Street:
- Village Books
- Additional:
- 1200 Eleventh Street
- City:
- Bellingham ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98225
- Country:
- United States
When poet and book author Sheila Bender lost her 25-year-old son in a snowboarding accident, she had to find a way to understand mortality and immortality so she could accept grief. Here she tells the story of her family and the family of her son’s fiancée coming together, understanding that 25-year-old Seth will be taken off life support. She writes about the months they faced together before the upcoming day that would have been his wedding day, and she tells the story of using poetry to write her way out of grief and find a way of carrying her son's life in her own. Her prose memoir includes her poems and recounts her path to finding "always." Memoirist Abigail Thomas writes, "With this beautiful book Sheila Bender offers a way through unimaginable loss. I love this book. She broke my heart and put it back together again.”
