Behind the Pages: Jason B. Rosenthal

Jason B. Rosenthal

My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me: A Memoir

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NAMED ONE OF TIME’S BEST NEW BOOKS, APRIL 2020

An inspir­ing mem­oir of life, love, loss, and new begin­nings by the wid­ow­er of best­selling author and film­mak­er, Amy Krouse Rosen­thal, whose last of act of love before her death was set­ting the stage for her husband’s life with­out her in a column in The New York Times. Her "Modern Love" column, “You May Want to Mar­ry My Hus­band” appeared 10 days before her death from ovar­i­an can­cer and quick­ly went viral, reach­ing more than five mil­lion peo­ple world­wide.

Behind the Pages author Jason B. Rosenthal kicks off the 9th Annual Saul Cohen-Schoke Jewish Family Service Lecture Series with a conversation about his acclaimed memoir, My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me. Rosenthal's book chronicles his journey through the trauma of losing his wife Amy to ovarian cancer, and is a response to Amy's New York Times column, "You May Want to Marry My Husband," which went viral, reaching millions worldwide.

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Partners: Schoke Jewish Family Service of Fairfield County, Jewish Book Council