My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me: A Memoir

#1 New York Times
Bestselling Author

An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss,
and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling children’s author and
filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, whose last act of love before her death was
setting the stage for her husband’s life without her in the viral New York
Times “Modern Love” column, “You May Want to Marry My Husband.”

On March 3, 2017, Amy Krouse
Rosenthal penned an op-ed piece for the New York Times “Modern Love”
column, “You May Want to Marry My Husband.” It appeared ten days before her
death from ovarian cancer. A heartbreaking, wry, brutally honest, and creative
play on a personal ad—in which a dying wife encouraged her husband to go on and
find happiness after her demise—the column quickly went viral, reaching more
than five million people worldwide.

In My Wife Said You May Want
to Marry Me, Jason describes what came next: his commitment to respecting
Amy’s wish, even as he struggled with her loss. Surveying his life before,
with, and after Amy, Jason ruminates on love, the pain of watching a loved one
suffer, and what it means to heal—how he and their three children, despite
their profound sorrow, went on. Jason’s emotional journey offers insights on
dying and death and the excruciating pain of losing a soulmate, and illuminates
the lessons he learned.

As he reflects on Amy’s gift to
him—a fresh start to fill his empty space with a new story—Jason describes how
he continues to honor Amy’s life and her last wish, and how he seeks to
appreciate every day and live in the moment while trying to help others coping
with loss. My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me is the poignant,
unreserved, and inspiring story of a great love, the aftermath of a marriage ended
too soon, and how a surviving partner eventually found a new perspective on
life’s joys in the wake of tremendous loss.