I was 23 when I met Carla Malden and Laurence Starkman at a party. They were screenwriters, I was a journalist. We bonded immediately and the connection only got stronger. We lived a few blocks from each other. The four of us went to restaurants, movies and concerts. We were there for all the big life events. The pregnancies, the sleepless nights, the baby steps, the driving tests, the joys, the non-stop worries. The highs and lows and the hilarity in-between. We shared it all, year after year. Carla and Laurence, high school sweethearts, just like us. And then Laurence got cancer. Sweet, wonderful, gifted Laurence. A Renaissance Man, an artist, an editor, a gourmet chef, a storyteller, a drummer, a Hawaiian shirt collector. An uncle. A brother-in-law. A son-in-law. A loyal, treasured friend. Above all, a husband. A father. Deeply missed. Today Carla's book arrives in stores. AfterImage: A Brokenhearted Memoir of a Charmed Life is an astonishing tribute to Laurence. At its core, Carla's book is "a love story, as all real stories of loss must be. It is a story not solely about grief. It’s about battling the before and surviving the after, and dabbling in madness along the way. It is about the small moments that constitute a life well-lived. It is in those moments of human connection that we can search for gratitude through grief. AfterImage is a story of love more than loss, memory more than sorrow, life more than death." Candice Reeds' review in New York Journal of Books
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