I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye: A Memoir of Loss, Grief, and Love by Ivan Maisel

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Title: I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye: A Memoir of Loss, Grief, and Love

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In February 2015, Ivan Maisel received a call that would alter his life forever: his son Maxs car had been found abandoned in a parking next to Lake Ontario. Two months later, Maxs body would be found in the lake. There’d been no note or obvious indication that Max wanted to harm himself; he’d signed up for a year-long subscription to a dating service; he’d spent the day he disappeared doing photography work for school. And this uncertainty became part of his father’s grief.  explores with grace, depth, and refinement the tragically transformative reality of losing a child. But it also tells the deeply human and deeply empathetic story of a father’s relationship with his son, of its complications, and of Max and Ivan’s struggle—as is the case for so many parents and their children—to connect. is a stunning, poignant exploration of the father and son relationship, of how our tendency to overlook men’s mental health can have devastating consequences, and how ultimately letting those who