Rise Above: A Memoir

An unforgettable memoir of fatherhood, grief, and the life-saving power of love and art in the wake of unimaginable loss

“This is a story that nobody should ever have to tell, yet Matthew Schnipper does so with grace, rawness, and beauty.”—Hua Hsu, Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling author of Stay True

Renzo Rollins Schnipper was born in February 2020, a split second before the beginning of the pandemic. To his parents, he was the reason for the universe’s existence at a ti...