Making Toast: A Family Story - Roger Rosenblatt

Though still reeling from their daughter's untimely death, Rosenblatt and his wife Ginny carry on, reconstructing a family, sustaining one another, and guiding three lively, alert, and tenderhearted grandchildren through the pains and confusions of grief. A painfully beautiful memoir....Written with such restraint as to be both heartbreaking and instructive. --E. L. Doctorow A revered, many times honored (George Polk, Peabody, and Emmy Award winner, to name but a few) journalist, novelist, and playwright, Roger Rosenblatt shares the unforgettable story of the tragedy that changed his life and his family. A book that grew out of his popular December 2008 essay in The New Yorker, Making Toast is a moving account of unexpected loss and recovery in the powerful tradition of About Alice and The Year of Magical Thinking . Writer Ann Beattie offers high praise to the acclaimed author of Lapham Rising and Beet for a memoir that is, written so forthrightly, but so delicately, that you feel you're a part of this family.