In late February 2007, Leah Fishbane's life was flourishing. A promising young graduate student in Jewish history, she was an adoring mother to her nearly four-year-old daughter and two months into a new pregnancy. In an instant, all this was gone: Leah was struck down suddenly with a previously undiagnosed brain tumor. In this deeply evocative memoir, her husband Eitan gives voice to the overwhelming nature of mourning, and to the uplifting power of memory.

Eitan Fishbane is assistant professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, specializing in kabbalah and mysticism. He is the author of As Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist and Jewish Mysticism and the Spiritual Life: Classical Texts, Contemporary Reflections.