Megan Bell's Reviews > Last Things: A Graphic Memoir of Loss and Love

Powerful, visceral, and so necessary, Last Things is a graphic memoir of a family’s journey through struggle, grief, and loss when their husband and father is diagnosed with ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Marissa Moss’ honesty, evident in every word and delivered with immediacy and clarity by every illustration, had me reading through tears, both in sadness and in gratitude. We are inundated with stories of beautiful, inspiring, even heartwarming deaths, and for many of us, those are narratives that our lived experiences don’t always live up to. If you’ve lost someone, Last Things will give you the comfort of having a friend who really knows what you’ve been through, and if you haven’t, Last Things will make you a better friend to those who have and serve as a touchstone should you be faced with such a loss. I want everyone to read Last Things, but particularly recommend it to fans of Art Spiegelman’s Maus and Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking.