My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me: A Memoir

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An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling childrens author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, whose last of act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husbands life without her in the viral New York Times Modern Love column, You May Want to Marry My Husband.

On March 3, 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal penned an op-ed piece for the New York Times Modern Love column You May Want to Marry My Husband. It appeared ten days before her death from ovarian cancer. A heartbreaking, wry, brutally honest, and creative play on a personal adin which a dying wife encouraged her husband to go on and find happiness after her demisethe column quickly went viral, reaching more than five million people worldwide.

In My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me, Jason describes what came next: his commitment to respecting Amys wish, even as he struggled with her loss. Surveying his life before, with, and after Amy, Jason ruminates on love, the pain of watching a loved one suffer, and what it means to healhow he and their three children, despite their profound sorrow, went on. Jasons emotional journey offers insights on dying and death and the excruciating pain of losing a soulmate, and illuminates the lessons he learned.

As he reflects on Amys gift to hima fresh start to fill his empty space with a new storyJason describes how he continues to honor Amys life and her last wish, and how he seeks to appreciate every day and live in the moment while trying to help others coping with loss. My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me is the poignant, unreserved, and inspiring story of a great love, the aftermath of a marriage ended too soon, and how a surviving partner eventually found a new perspective on lifes joys in the wake of tremendous loss.

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"The book is a 228-page love declaration to Amy." Washington Post Jason B. Rosenthals brilliant and achingly honest memoir captures thetrue boundlessness of love and the absolute heartbreak of loss. I smiledand cried the whole way through this extraordinary reading experience,convinced more than ever that, as Jason writes, people are good. John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author ofLooking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars I feel very lucky to have known Amy since high school and watchedadmiringly as she built a family and a body of work that will outlastus all. Her partner through it all, Jason B. Rosenthal, is a man of honorand great sensitivity, and their lives together tell us how to live andhow to say goodbye. This book is everything Jason iswarm,approachable, inquisitive, and relentlessly honest. Dave Eggers, bestselling author ofHeroes of the Frontier and The Captain and the Glory Jasons profoundly personal book is about loss and whatcomes after, but it is, at its core, also the story of twosoul mates and a love that lives forever. Katie Couric, journalist, New York Timesbestselling author, and cancer advocate Rosenthals gut-wrenching, honest, and uplifting memoir offers reassurance and connection to readers experiencing their own losses. Booklist An essay gone viral leads to this memoir about deep loss and navigating profound grieffilled with advice and support for anyone else going through similar circumstances. Kirkus Reviews It's about love, loss, and family and it's guaranteed to make you cry. Buzzfeed Rosenthals grief journey is expressed with candor, humor, and gratituderecommended for readers either experiencing grief or wanting to understand how to support someone experiencing loss. Library Journal

Author Bio

Jason B. Rosenthal is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Dear Boy, co-written with his daughter, Paris. He is the board chair of the Amy Krouse Rosenthal Foundation, which supports both childhood literacy and research in early detection of ovarian cancer. A lawyer, public speaker, and devoted father of three, he is passionate about helping others find ways to fill their blank spaces as he continues to fill his own. Jason resides in Chicago, a city he is proud to call home.