Keeping His Ashes: A Memoir About Love and Dying

Keeping His Ashes is a book about death and the wrenching grief that follows the loss of someone we cannot bear to lose. Claudia's husband, Scotti, dies from cancer, she miscarries their only child a month before his Stage IV diagnosis, and their beloved dog dies.

Readers bond with Claudia and Scotti. We share the life-altering effect of Scotti's fall into a leaf fire as a child, his scientific studies, his skilled carpentry work, and his atheism. We share Claudia's strength — and her vulne...