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Oh God, this is such a beautiful, heartbreaking book. A visceral outpouring of grief and love.

Awful weekend again, but at least I finished three books and I get to start three new ones today. New week, new books.

This is Rob Delaney‘s memoir of his one year old son‘s cancer diagnosis, the year of surgery, chemo and hospitalisation and his death at two years old. It is shattering and I am glad I read it - to know a little of his beautiful boy Henry.
Back in 2007 my friend lost her 8yo daughter to cancer. I‘m glad this book exists and I think my friend would be too. It‘s angry and sad and messy and real.

Raw and heartbreaking, this is a memoir from actor Rob Delaney about the loss of his 2-year-old son to a brain tumor. He is so honest and angry and loving. I think reading this if you'd been through something similar would be cathartic. It's powerful and painful, just as you'd imagine a book about this topic would be. Anyone, myself included, who has watched a loved one die from cancer can't help but feel his grief with him as you read.

Easily the most devastating book I have ever read.

One of the saddest, most honest memoirs of grief I‘ve read. It‘s brutal and devastating, but it doesn‘t wallow. Delaney narrates beautifully. It‘s excellent, if your heart can take it. As he quotes at the outset, a heart that hurts is a heart that works.