by Amy Lin
First published 2024
Amy Lin builds a life with Kurtis, a talented architect who brings her joy and helps her accept herself. The newlyweds plan their move to Vancouver when Kurtis decides to run a half-marathon with Amy's family on a hot August morning. He never returns home. Amy becomes a widow at thirty-two. Ten days later, she faces her own medical emergency in the hospital, making critical decisions about her treatment while still reeling from loss. Amy examines her relationship with Kurtis and confronts how his sudden death destroys everything she thought she knew about grieving. The memoir traces her marriage, the chaos that follows his passing, and her effort to navigate a world that offers simple answers about loss when her reality feels anything but simple.
Genres: grief, contemporary, adult-fiction, biography-memoir, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, grief, second-chance
Setting: Vancouver
Period: August
272 pages · Hardcover · Zibby Publishing
Content warnings: death, medical-trauma