A Space in the Heart is about the anguish that the death of a child brings and how to survive and thrive in its aftermath. It’s part memoir, part self-help, zero bullshit and 100 percent straight from the heart. It’s about our never-ending love for our lost children and how that love ultimately helps us transform and heal. In other words, it’s a roadmap for a road no one would ever choose to travel. Grief isn’t something that you overcome…but you can learn to live with it. It will take time. It will take work. It will take pain. It will take strength. It will take an open heart. It will take everything you have. It will take things that you didn’t know you had.

Larry Carlat is a writer and editor, whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, GQ, Rolling Stone, Psychology Today, Men’s Journal, Men’s Health, and Slam. He is also a grief coach and group leader for bereaved parents at Our House Grief Support Center in Los Angeles and a member of its board of directors.