Iris Bolton's classic work about healing from loss still holds as powerful a message as when it was first published in 1983. At bottom, life and death are our greatest teachers — if we shall but listen. Iris Bolton's personal story of her son Mitch's suicide is a deeply moving, poignant one. It is a story of both a devastating tragedy and an exquisite triumph — and the agonizing, relentless, conflicted process connecting these two oppositional pulls. This book is part memoir of their experience and part handbook for dealing with the grief. Her co-author was her father, Curtis Mitchell.