I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye

I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye

A Memoir of Loss, Grief, and Love

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Publisher Description

In this deeply emotional memoir, a longtime ESPN writer reflects on the suicide of his son Max and delves into how their complicated relationship led him to see grief as love.

In February 2015, Ivan Maisel received a call that would alter his life forever: his son Max's car had been found abandoned in a parking next to Lake Ontario. Two months later, Max's body would be found in the lake. 

There’d been no note or obvious indication that Max wanted to harm himself; he’d signed up for a year-long subscription to a dating service; he’d spent the day he disappeared doing photography work for school. And this uncertainty became part of his father’s grief. I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye explores with grace, depth, and refinement the tragically transformative reality of losing a child. But it also tells the deeply human and deeply empathetic story of a father’s relationship with his son, of its complications, and of Max and Ivan’s struggle—as is the case for so many parents and their children—to connect.

I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye is a stunning, poignant exploration of the father and son relationship, of how our tendency to overlook men’s mental health can have devastating consequences, and how ultimately letting those who grieve do so openly and freely can lead to greater healing. 

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2021
October 26
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
288
Pages
PUBLISHER
Hachette Books
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
10
MB

Customer Reviews

kato@78 ,

I keep trying to catch his eye

I saw Ivan on GMA and I immediately wanted to know everything about Max. I have so many friends who have lost children to the disease of addiction and frankly it is so hard not knowing how to approach the subject of the loss of their child. I love how he put so much in perspective. The book is so sad because Max is gone but hopefully it can help others who have also lost a child or help that child who is struggling. I loved this book. Grief is love.

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