Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage by Madeleine L'Engle, 1988

I grabbed this memoir because Madeleine L'Engle was one of my favorite childhood authors. L'Engle focuses her writing on the story of her marriage, its beginning and its ending with the ultimate death of her husband. While it sometimes feels as if she is simply name-dropping at the beginning of the book, the truth is that she was surrounded by artsy people due to her husband's work as an actor. By the end of the book, I found myself sobbing, reliving the death of loved family members from cancer, and thinking of the eventual death of my own beloved. Recommended, but not when you're feeling emotional.