IndieReader

4.4 / 5 — IR Approved

“A vulnerable memoir that lets readers experience the struggles of both surviving and raising a toddler while grieving… Some of these sections are hauntingly beautiful… I’M ONLY A GOOD DADDY BECAUSE YOUR MOMMY DIED offers trauma survivors a light to shine through the darkness. It movingly demonstrates that, no matter how sudden and tragic the loss, healing does happen.”

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Kirkus

“GET IT” — Kirkus Recommended

“An illuminating look at grief through a husband’s letters to his late wife and the daughter who never knew her… “It’s the kind of vision that could resonate with any reader and help them find their own peace with one of life’s most unresolved, yet terrifying, experiences.”

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Nicole — Instagram video review

“It was not fluffy. It was dark. It was vulnerable. It was real. And it was everything I loved in a memoir.”

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Dear Reader

My own reasons to read it. Letters to whoever picks up the book.

• Reason #1 to Read I’m Only a Good Daddy Because Your Mommy Died
  Reason #1 to read my book: it wasn’t written for you.
• Reason #2 to Read I’m Only a Good Daddy Because Your Mommy Died
  Dead wives get promoted to sainthood.
• Reason #3 to Read I’m Only a Good Daddy Because Your Mommy Died
  She didn’t die so I could grow. She died because she died.
• Reason #4 to Read I’m Only a Good Daddy Because Your Mommy Died
  It takes a certain amount of hubris to say a book I wrote about my dead wife is funny.
• His Grief Made Him a Better Father
  Now tell me my title is full of shit.
• Yay for the Good Review, Boo for the Dead Wife
  You want to know a very surreal feeling? Reading a review about a book you wrote to your daughter about your dead wife.
• Reason #5 to Read I’m Only a Good Daddy Because Your Mommy Died
  People are human. People mean well. People still suck.
• My Favorite Line In The Book
  My wife isn’t coming back from the dead. She isn’t a vampire.