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

When Marissa Moss's husband, Harvey, was diagnosed with ALS, they were told they would have two years together. One year to digest the enormity of the diagnosis and another year to say goodbye. But it didn't unfold that way. Instead, Harvey's condition deteriorated even more rapidly than expected. He was soon unable to breathe without a respirator. In this black-and-white graphic memoir, Moss tells the devastating story of her husband's illness and death. She thought they would grow closer, that there would be meaningful moments of kindness between Harvey and her, Harvey and their three sons. There was no beauty in this loss. It was not a "good death." It's the story of a man torn unwillingly from his life and turned cruel in his final months, and a family shocked and devastated. It's a brutal read, deeply emotional but not sentimental, and gripping from the beginning to the end.