Torn Pages From A Broken Heart

<p><strong>Torn Pages From A Broken Heart: A Powerful Memoir of Grief Loss and Finding Light in the Darkness</strong></p><p><strong>A raw unflinching journey through widowhood that will leave you feeling seen understood and less alone.</strong></p><p></p><p>When CJ Infantino lost his wife Ariana to cancer after a six-year battle he thought he understood grief. He was wrong. What followed was a year of profound isolation crushing responsibility and the shattering realization that everything he believed about loss was a myth.</p><p></p><p><em>Torn Pages From A Broken Heart</em> is not another book about the stages of grief. It's an honest unvarnished account of what it really means to be a widower not a single parent but a man whose soul was ripped in half left to raise three children while learning to exist without his best friend his north star his everything.</p><p></p><p><strong>This book is for you if:</strong></p><p>•You're navigating your own grief and feel lost in the darkness</p><p>•You're supporting someone who is grieving and wants to truly understand</p><p>•You've felt isolated by society's myths about loss and healing</p><p>•You need permission to feel broken and to know that's okay</p><p></p><p>CJ's story dismantles the comfortable lies we tell ourselves about grief. There are no stages to work through no timeline for healing no magic moment when you're better. Instead there's the messy contradictory reality of learning to carry loss while still choosing to live.</p><p></p><p>Written during his first year of widowhood these pages capture the raw immediacy of fresh grief: the 3 AM breakdowns the impossible task of explaining death to children the physical weight of sorrow and the small moments of unexpected grace that keep you moving forward.</p><p></p><p><strong>What readers are saying:</strong></p><ul><li><em>Finally someone who tells the truth about grief. I felt seen on every page.</em></li><li><em>CJ's honesty gave me permission to stop pretending I was okay. This book is a lifeline.</em></li><li><em>Not just for those who are grieving. Everyone needs to read this to understand what real support looks like.</em></li></ul><p></p><p>More than a memoir this book is a bridge between the grieving and those who love them. It's a testament to the truth that we can be broken and whole devastated and grateful forever changed and still capable of joy.</p><p></p><p><strong>You don't have to grieve alone.</strong></p><p></p><p>Perfect for readers of <em>Option B</em> by Sheryl Sandberg <em>The Year of Magical Thinking</em> by Joan Didion and <em>It's OK That You're Not OK</em> by Megan Devine.</p><p><em>Torn Pages From A Broken Heart</em> doesn't promise to fix your grief no it promises something better: the profound relief of being understood.</p>