The life of those left behind

"In this heartbreaking yet hopeful autobiographical novel, an acclaimed Italian author who lost his partner to suicide testifies to the power of storytelling in living with grief. When in 1999 30-year-old Matteo B. Bianchi published his debut novel -- a scathing portrait of the sentimental education of a gay boy from Milan in the 1980s -- the timing couldn't be worse: he had just lost S., the man he'd lived with for 7 years, who one day, a few mo...