![]() Though confronted with devastating grief and the responsibilities of a new and single father, Matt did not surrender to devastation he chose to keep moving forward-to make a life for Maddy. ![]() Just twenty-seven hours later, Liz suffered a pulmonary embolism and died instantly, without ever holding the daughter whose arrival she had so eagerly awaited. Liz's pregnancy was rocky, but they welcomed Madeline, beautiful and healthy, into the world. After years of long-distance dating, the pair finally settled together in Los Angeles, and they had it all: a perfect marriage, a gorgeous new home, and a baby girl on the way. Matt and Liz Logelin were high school sweethearts. Mostly, though, his ability to convey love for his daughter and late wife through words and the sheer dedication it must have taken for him to write a book is staggering.A courageous and searingly honest memoir about the first year of the author's life following the birth of his daughter and the death of his wife - and winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Memoir & Autobiography. The author's means of survival do not meet their ideals of "acceptable grieving methods". It was very sad all tears when it came down to him describing his love to his daughter and how he would give anything to have his wife back, except for her. Anyone who has gone through a loss will appreciate the brutal honesty of the author's first painful year as a father and widow, learning how to do both as once, yet not wanting one role to define the other. He portrays her as a real person someone with hopes, dreams, a big smile, but also a potty mouth, a bossy side and bitchy days. He doesn't put his wife on a pedestal either. He feels his in-laws don't grieve properly. He is bitter at how those around him try to console him, or pretend nothing happened at all. He could have written how he was a saintly martyr navigating unchartered territory without his perfect woman. He was angry, bitter, devastated, broken, overwhelmed and unprepared to face single parenthood alone for the first time after his daughter's birth. ![]() This book is the most accurate, honest and painfully raw accounts of grief. He is a brutally, painfully honest real person. The conclusion that the author is not in fact a hipster douchebag. In honoring Liz's legacy, heartache has become solace. In this memoir, Matt shares bittersweet and often humorous anecdotes of his courtship and marriage to Liz of relying on his newborn daughter for the support that she unknowingly provided and of the extraordinary online community of strangers who have become his friends. ![]() Coming soon to Netflix and starring Kevin Hart, this courageous and searingly honest memoir reflects on the first year of the author's life following the birth of his daughter and the death of his wife. ![]()
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