This book is so very well done. It's my first favorite book of 2012. It chronicles one beautiful relationship, one struggling author, two very flawed people, and four amazing parents. But to say that was all that I found in the covers would be like saying was that all there was ended at print being pressed on a page, too.

This book is stunningly well documented, both narration and situationally, about what it is like to live with cancer, and live with loving someone who is living with-or-dying of cancer. And as someone who's been through that, several times I wanted to put the book down and just take a breather, to write this man thank you cards.

Because he got it right. He got all of it right. All of the grace and the gracelessness. All of the different ways everything in daily interactions and names and love and survival. Everything. Buy this book. Buy a box of tissues to sit next to you with it. But go acquire it soon, or now.