Although he has devoted his life to counselling those who are suffering from anxiety and grief, psychiatrist Irvin Yalom never had he faced the need to counsel himself until his wife, esteemed feminist author Marilyn Yalom, was diagnosed with cancer. In alternating accounts of their last months together and Irvin's first months alone, they offer us a rare window into coping with death and the loss of one's beloved, as they investigate universal questions of intimacy, love, and grief.