Alive in This World

Who are you when your world ends? Where do you go when the signposts are obliterated, and how do you live when you've forgotten how to breathe? In this remarkable memoir of loss, Lyssa Black Fassett learns that the only way through is to surrender to this strange new world. After the sudden death of her 22-year-old son from a heroin overdose, grief grabs the author by the hand and tosses her into the waves. But, as if by miracle, grief then welcomes her back to dry land . . . over and over again