The Light Streamed Beneath It: A Memoir of Grief and Celebration

A Publishers Weekly Notable Book49th Shelf Recommended Read A modern gay memoir exploring love, death, pain, and community that will resonate long after the last page. "This is an embodied story of love, loss, and recovery -- raw, candid, and filled with a sense of awe at human resilience." -- Shelf Awareness "A timely story so human, so beautiful, so bravely told with heart and humour." -- Rosie O'Donnell A lifetime of finding punchlines in his heartache comes to a shuddering stop when comedian and writer Shawn Hitchins loses two great loves, five months apart, to sudden death. In this deeply poignant memoir that combines sober self-portrait with tender elegy, Hitchins explores the messiness of being alive: the longing and desire, scorching-earth anger, raw grief -- and the pathway of healing he discovers when he lets his heart remain open. Never without an edge of self-awareness, The Light Streamed Beneath It invites the reader into Hitchins's world as he reckons with his past and st