On a summer day in 1988, Carter Cooper, aged twenty-three, dropped to his death from the fourteenth-floor terrace of the New York City apartment of his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt - as she watched, horrified and helpless. Now, eight years later, she is finally able to set down the terrible events of that afternoon, to come to grips with her anguishing pain, and to suggest how all of us can - and why we must - survive the worst that can happen. Going back into her own traumatic childhood, into the early death of her much-loved husband - Carter's father, Wyatt Cooper - and into the story of Carter himself, the golden boy, she has written a book of overwhelming intensity, feeling, and beauty.
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