Life with an Impossible Person

By: Joan Heiman

Philip was unconventional to the nth degree, a poet and astrologer with little regard for a stable income or retirement plan. After 37 years of traveling together from dream to dream, country to country, Philip’s death leaves Joan struggling to reinvent her life—without losing touch with her love for him.

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At 28, Joan Heiman said "I do" to a man her mother called "every Jewish mother's dread." Her new husband, Philip, was unconventional to the nth degree, a poet and astrologer with little regard for a stable income or retirement plan. For the next 37 years, they traveled together from dream to dream, country to country, and finally to Philip's death.

In this telling of their unorthodox history, their heartbreaking journey toward his death, and the soul-shattering grief following his passing, Heiman writes with both pathos and humor about the courage needed to fully embrace love, death, and renewal. This finely wrought memoir is an ode to living with an impossibly beloved person . . . and an exploration of braving life without him.

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