The story of a mother grieving the sudden loss of her twenty one year old child from the award winning and bestselling memoirist of Don t Let s Go to the Dogs Tonight Truly extraordinary HELEN MACDONALD A mesmeric celebration Will help others surviving loss surviving life NEW YORK TIMES It s midsummer in Wyoming and Alexandra Fuller is barely hanging on Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe reeling from a midlife breakup freshly sober and piecing her way uncertainly through a volatile new relationship with a younger woman Alexandra vows to get herself back on even keel And then suddenly and incomprehensibly her son Fi at twenty one years old dies in his sleep From a sheep wagon deep in the mountains of Wyoming to a grief sanctuary in New Mexico to a silent meditation retreat in Alberta Canada Alexandra embarks on a journey up and down the spine of the Rocky Mountains trying to find out how to grieve herself whole For anyone who s ever loved and lost or ever will in short a book for us all OPRAH DAILY A profound and gripping memoir about surviving unexpected devastating loss SUNDAY TIMES Profound and defiantly enthralling WASHINGTON POST A Book of the Year for the New York Times Washington Post and Time