A Kiss Before You Go: An Illustrated Memoir of Love and Loss
"Danny Gregory has created an honest--and literal--portrait of grief, charting the life and death of his wife Patti in watercolors and words.... Gregory's struggles after her death are so true that you can't help relate.... Equally compelling is his progress towards rebuilding his life, the hardest and most mysterious part of a journey like this. How can someone recover? 'The daily Patti has been replaced by the universal Patti,' he writes. 'I think of all the ways I loved her, at all the different parts of our lives.' " -- Oprah.com"Personal, original, and vibrant." -- Steven Heller, TheAtlantic.com"Gregory's thoughtful writing is accompanied by his stunning watercolor paintings, which are so rich and wild they viscerally convey the wide swings of emotion he and his family endured. But the book is not depressing-or at least no more depressing than life is. It's both a celebration of the woman Gregory loved and a clear-eyed look at the work it took to clean up the messes she left behind." - Slate.com