two kisses for maddy a memoir of loss and love

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“I’ve already come to the conclusion that I will probably be parentless by the time I am thirty,” Claire writes. Author Claire Bidwell Smith-an only child-was just fourteen years old, when both of her parents were diagnosed with cancer within months of each other. Rules of Inheritance is an absorbing coming-of-age account reminiscent of the works of Cheryl Strayed, Jeanette Walls, and Mary Karr.

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On a wave of buzz and praise in advance of its hardcover publication, The Rules of Inheritance quickly became beloved as a courageous and honest blueprint for how to start over. Matt and family live in Los Angeles but travel often to see as much of the world as possible.Įvery once in a while a memoir so striking and beautifully written comes along that people can’t stop talking about it long after they’ve finished it. Since its founding in 2009, The Liz Logelin Foundation has given grants to 120+ families. Matt is also the founder and president of The Liz Logelin Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in honor of his late wife, with the sole purpose of providing hope for young widowed families (regardless of marital status or sexual orientation) through financial assistance and necessary resources. Matt has been featured on Oprah, the CBS Morning Show, the Rachael Ray Show, CBS 2 News Los Angeles, and KARE 11 News Minneapolis. Two Kisses for Maddy was the winner of the Goodreads Choice Award in the Best Memoir & Autobiography category, 2011, has been translated to four languages. His essays have been featured in the Huffington Post, Glamour Magazine, Mamalode Magazine, and The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything. His blog, Matt, Liz, & Madeline has many avid followers. In honoring Liz’s legacy, heartache has become solace.īorn and bred in Minnesota, Matt Logelin was a project manager at Yahoo! until he left the company to focus on writing his memoir and raising his daughter, Madeline. In this memoir, Matt shares bittersweet and often humorous anecdotes of his courtship and marriage to Liz of relying on his newborn daughter for the support that she unknowingly provided and of the extraordinary online community of strangers who have become his friends. Though confronted with devastating grief and the responsibilities of a new and single father, Matt did not surrender to devastation he chose to keep moving forward– to make a life for Maddy. Just twenty-seven hours later, Liz suffered a pulmonary embolism and died instantly, without ever holding the daughter whose arrival she had so eagerly awaited. Liz’s pregnancy was rocky, but they welcomed Madeline, beautiful and healthy, into the world on March 24, 2008. After years of long-distance dating, the pair finally settled together in Los Angeles, and they had it all: a perfect marriage, a gorgeous new home, and a baby girl on the way. Matt and Liz Logelin were high school sweethearts. Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss & Love The two are visiting the islands for a writer’s workshop to be held on Orcas Island, and we are excited to have them at Griffin Bay Bookstore to present their books to our reading community. Griffin Bay Bookstore takes special pleasure in hosting bestselling authors Matthew Logelin ( Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss & Love) and Claire Bidwell Smith ( Rules of Inheritance) for a book signing on Wednesday evening, April 17, 7:00 pm.

Two kisses for maddy a memoir of loss and love