Making Toast
A Family Story

Roger Rosenblatt’s daughter Amy was 38, a doctor, a wife and a mother of three small children when she died. Making Toast is Rosenblatt’s memoir of how he, his wife, Ginny, and the people Amy left behind, coped with their loss. Roger and Ginny moved in with their son-in-law, Harris, and helped raise......more

I understand why people write books after the death of a loved one: it's cathartic. I'm less understanding of why we read them. If we don't know the people involved, what's the gain? Is it that we hope we'll handle our losses with more dignity? That death will be comprehensible? I really don't know.......more

Making toast Quando Roger Rosenblatt inizia scrivere i primi appunti per questo memoir, sono trascorsi appena sei mesi dalla morte della figlia Amy. Una morte improvvisa, avvenuta nel soggiorno di casa dove Amy, trentotto anni appena, moglie e madre di tre bambini, si stava allenando sul tapis roulant......more