This is one of the most innovative and original books I have read on the subject of death and dying, one that will both stimulate and challenge the reader with compelling insights and perceptive understanding---an invaluable contribution. Rabbi Earl A. Grollman, D.H.L., D.D. Author, Living When a Loved One Has Died

Kent Koppelman addresses coming to terms with tragic loss and offers much good information with his own inimitable style of humor and poetic license, with beautiful poetry and prose and deep philosophic insight into tragedy and courage. It is a highly useful work, to be read again and again. If you purchase this book, it will be one that becomes well crumpled---as all good books are! Whatever you take from this book, some piece of it will be meaningful. For me, reading it has been meaningful both personally and professionally. Daniel Rudofossi, Psy. D., Ph.D., New York University Author, A Cop Doc's Guide to Public Safety Complex Trauma Syndrome

Wrestling with the Angel is a major addition to the classic works in dying, death, and grief. For those with a love of literature, this marvelous work includes not only prose, but poetry, a short story, and a wonderful play. In warm and simple language, Kent Koppelman addresses issues faced by men in grieving the loss of a child, in a uniquely masculine approach to this topic. Unlike most grief and bereavement works, this book addresses male issues, in a humorous yet thoughtful and compassionate way that offers men the strength and direction they need to survive with tremendous loss. Women will also enjoy this marvelous book and its insights into the special nature of a father's grief and response to grief. Dr. Gerry R. Cox, Emeritus Professor of Sociology Center for Death Education & Bioethics University of Wisconsin-La Crosse