WORDS FROM READERS
What reviewers are saying
“Reading this felt like bearing witness to something sacred. It is powerful and heart-wrenching and loving, all at once.”
Selena Cuffe, CGO RJB Properties
“This book will wreck you — in the best, most honest way… Isenberg says this book isn’t for everyone — he’s wrong. It was for me, and it may be for you, too.”
Amazon review
“Powerful… beautiful… painful… resonant…vivid…. I found myself in these pages — especially after recently losing someone I loved. His willingness to go all the way down into the depths of his pain is oddly comforting, because it makes you feel less alone in yours.”
Karen Dillon-Perez, co-author “How to Measure Your Life”, former chief editor, HBR.
“I read your book in a single sitting cover to cover today. It was raw moving gripping. Rarely have I experienced loss and grief so powerfully described. It made me think about what is coming..”
Ravi Venkatesan, former Chairman, Microsoft India
I couldn’t put it down. You triggered so many emotions … about dealing with sickness and grief…beautiful. engaging…an important book that needs to be read broadly. Daniel Birnbaum, former CEO SodaStream
“Enters your soul and touches your inner chords. Wholeheartedly. Explores illness, pain, care, loss, love, grief, compassion, connection, hope, healing — and does so with brutal honesty.”
“Hearing him read felt as if he were in the room, trusting me with the hardest moments of his life.”
“Show Up. You may not know what to say, but bring the casserole or the loaf of bread, bring in the mail, let out the dog. Thank you, Dan, for a heartbreaking, helpful primer on love, illness, death, and carrying on.”
“This book will wreck you — in the best, most honest way… Isenberg says this book isn’t for everyone — he’s wrong. It was for me, and it may be for you, too.”
“A beautiful, raw, and deeply personal and moving tribute. Couldn’t put the book down.”
“It also feels like a passionate love story — a testament to a deep love and the woman who inspired it.”
“Falling in love with Carla through Dan’s eyes… did anyone experience such romantic feelings before?”
“Dan’s love for Carla clearly comes out from every page of the book.”
“As a ‘fellow traveler,’ I found myself dog-earing pages as there were many passages that resonated with me and my own experience of caretaking and grief.”
