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I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye: A Memoir of Loss, Grief, and Love

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Author:

Ivan Maisel

Publisher:

Hachette Books

Date:

October 26, 2021

In February 2015, Ivan Maisel received a call that would alter his life forever: his son Max's car was found abandoned in a parking next to Lake Ontario. Two months later, Max's body would be found in the lake. Navigating the moments of their complicated relationship, as well as their love each other, Maisel explores the bridges he tried to build to his son and the grief that engulfed him and his family after Max's death by suicide.

What The Reviewers Say

Margaret Quamme,
Booklist
Poignant, understated.

Publishers Weekly
Beautiful and heart-wrenching.

Kirkus
Raw, moving.