Find a Place for Me - Paperback

by Deirdre Fagan (Author)

"...This memoir will burrow down deep into your heart, finding its own place of comfort there. I dare you to be able to put it down." --Noley Reid, author of Pretend We Are Lovely

Find a Place for Me is a memoir about facing a marriage's last act--a spouse's death--as a couple united in mind and holding hands. Deirdre and Bob are married eleven years and have two young children when forty-three-year-old Bob is diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. ALS determines the journey their marriage will now take, but Bob and Deirdre are resolute in how they will traverse their remaining months as a couple. Chronicling Bob's illness, Find a Place for Me is also the love story of a happy marriage filled with humor, honesty, and essential conversations. In this moving, tragic, and surprisingly funny book, Deirdre and Bob raise a glass to love and the life each of them has left while learning how to lovingly say goodbye.

Author Biography

Deirdre Fagan is the author of a collection of short stories, The Grief Eater, Adelaide Books (2020), a chapbook of poetry, Have Love, Finishing Line Press (2019), and a reference book, Critical Companion to Robert Frost, Facts on File (2007). Fagan is associate professor and coordinator of creative writing in the English, Literature, and World Languages Department at Ferris State University and has also published in numerous academic and literary journals. Meet her at deirdrefagan.com