{"product_id":"remembering-elysha-by-paul-folino-gallo-9781923514881","title":"Remembering Elysha","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA memoir of devastating honesty, warmth, and unexpected grace about raising children while learning how to live with what love leaves behind.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn a family holiday meant to create lasting memories, everything changes in an instant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen a sudden medical crisis strikes in New York, Paul Folino-Gallo finds himself in a hospital room facing the unimaginable. His sons Giorgio, eight, and Valentino, six, still believe their mother will be coming home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the space between one breath and the next, Paul realises he will have to tell them she isn’t.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the days and months that follow, he must learn how to raise two boys in a world permanently altered by absence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLife, however, continues in small and sometimes surprising ways. School lunches are packed, soccer games are played, and burnt dinners are immortalised in six-year-old Valentino’s ‘Sad Dad’ drawings. Eight-year-old Giorgio begins asking the kinds of questions children are never meant to ask … where does love go when someone dies?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFamily traditions continue even when the heart of the family is gone. Two boys grieve in different ways, and a father learns to honour both. Slowly, they discover that grief does not move in a straight line. It changes shape, making space for joy and sorrow to exist in the same breath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough these months runs a quieter reflection on the men who came before him, and the ways families learn, generation by generation, to carry grief.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRemembering Elysha\u003c\/em\u003e offers no false comfort and no easy answers. This is grief told truthfully — the longing, the dark humour, the absurd moments, and the quiet reality that life continues alongside loss. A reminder that the bonds of family, forged in both joy and sorrow, can hold us together even when everything else changes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘We carry you with us, not as a burden but as the greatest privilege.’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47745309802732,"sku":"9781923514881","price":41.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781923514881-remembering-elysha.jpg?v=1781499377","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/remembering-elysha-by-paul-folino-gallo-9781923514881","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}