“We’re told that major illness deepens us, makes us grateful for our lives,” Moss writes. With refreshing candor, “Last Things” explores unspoken taboos. “I’m hoping other people won’t feel as isolated as I did, as much of a failure.” “I started writing a memoir about what had happened to our family two weeks after my husband died,” Moss says. With a career and three young sons, Moss did not identify with the image of the stoic caregiver as the condition of her spouse, an art history professor at UC Berkeley, rapidly declined. Released this month, “ Last Things: A Graphic Memoir of Loss and Love” details Moss’s intensely personal chronicle of losing her husband. The result is a 184-page work of non-fiction geared toward adults.
Writing a memoir helped manage overwhelming loss. But after her husband of 17 years succumbed to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - more commonly known as ALS - in 2002, Moss tried something new.
Her 30-volume “Amelia’s Notebook” series has alone sold more than 5 million copies. With more than 70 titles to her name, Marissa Moss has published a wealth of picture books and middle-grade and young adult novels.
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