A Kiss Before You Go an Illustrated Memoir of Love and Loss

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A Kiss Before You Go is a profound and personal autobiographical work, a collection of Danny's illustrated journal pages chronicling his journey to recovery after the loss of his wife in a tragic accident. This heartfelt tale pairs beautiful illustrations with intimate, contemplative text.

Danny Gregory is the executive creative director of a major NY ad agency and has created award-winning campaigns for clients like Chase, American Express, IBM, Crayola, Disney and many others. He is the author of 5 other books and his illustrations have appeared in the New York Times and many other publications and books. His website gets around 8 million hits a year.

Danny Gregory has created an honest--and literal--portrait of grief, charting the life and death of his wife Patti in watercolors and words.... Gregory's struggles after her death are so true that you can't help relate.... Equally compelling is his progress towards rebuilding his life, the hardest and most mysterious part of a journey like this. How can someone recover? 'The daily Patti has been replaced by the universal Patti, ' he writes. 'I think of all the ways I loved her, at all the different parts of our lives.' -- Oprah.com Gregory's thoughtful writing is accompanied by his stunning watercolor paintings, which are so rich and wild they viscerally convey the wide swings of emotion he and his family endured. But the book is not depressing-or at least no more depressing than life is. It's both a celebration of the woman Gregory loved and a clear-eyed look at the work it took to clean up the messes she left behind. - Slate.com Personal, original, and vibrant. -- Steven Heller, TheAtlantic.com