When All That's Left of Me Is Love: A Daughter's Story of Letting Go

2013 Indie Excellence Book Awards finalist, 2012 Nautilus Book Award silver medalist, 2012 Living Now Book Awards gold medalist, 2012 Readers Favorite silver medalist, and 2011 Reader Views Literary Awards first-place winner in two categories: memoir/autobiography/biography and parenting/families/relationships

When All That's Left of Me Is Love is poignant and powerful. Linda Campanella provides an intimate look inside her family and her heart as she relives the joy-filled year and long goodbye leading to her terminally ill mother's death. In the process, she comes to terms with the permanence of her loss and finds comfort in profound gratitude for many unexpected gifts.

At once heart-wrenching and heartwarming, When All That's Left of Me Is Love is about living fully and purposefully after learning someone very dear to us will be gone too soon. Readers can expect to be touched deeply by one woman's example of grace and courage and one family's determination to embrace life while awaiting death.

The book itself is full of life. It is a moving love story, a spiritual journey, a poetry lesson, even a case for happy hour. It reminds us all to cherish loving relationships and each new day. Intensely personal, its themes--love, family, faith, courage, grief--are universal. Campanella's beautiful story of bonds that do not break and love that never dies will inspire not only those who face or fear death but also those who love and embrace life.

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"When All That's Left of Me Is Love is a lovely, lyrical work. Linda Campanella writes with fierce and loving honesty as well as wise generosity about the most significant of all family relationships. Her words are not only meaningful; they are illuminating."
 - Gina Barreca, Ph.D., best-selling author, humorist, syndicated columnist, and professor of English

"In a clear and eloquent voice, Linda Campanella shares with us her final journey with her mother, who is terminally ill. This book, conceived in love and written as witness and testimony, offers us in the healing professions a rare opportunity to observe and experience the meaning of the phrase 'a good death.' Both mother and daughter understand that dying, like being born, is in the nature of life's journey and is to be shared with those we love."
 - James A. Block, M.D., recipient of the inaugural (2009) American Cancer Society Pathfinder in Palliative Care Award, and former president and chief executive officer of Johns Hopkins Health System