Death & I Are Too Close - 2nd Edition

What does it feel like to lose a child? Robby Miller knows twice over.Death & I Are Too Close is a father's unflinching account of surviving the deaths of his two sons — Tim, at fifteen, and James, at twenty-seven — and of everything that comes after: the grief that arrives like a phantom limb, the well-meaning friends who don't know what to say, the workplace that expects you back in a week, the long climb out of what Miller calls the Valley of Death.But this is not a book that leaves you in the dark. With hard-won honesty — and flashes of unexpected humour — Miller writes about how grief actually works on the mind and body, what genuinely helped him, and why reaching for other people, and for help, is the thing that carries you through. It is a memoir for the bereaved, for those who love them, and for anyone who has ever stood close to death and wondered how to keep living.Honest about suicide, and written with care, Death & I Are Too Close offers something rarer than comfort: company, from someone who has been there.