Losing one's parents is a universal experience. Whether it happens suddenly or over a long period of time, whether it happens when one is younger or older, no other life passage is more profound and presents such a seismic shift in one's perspective on life, career, and family.

Always Too Soon: Voices of Support For Those Who Have Lost Both Parents is a collection of intimate interviews about coping with this loss and the journey traveled to move beyond it.

You'll find words of comfort and inspiration from Rosanne Cash, Hope Edelman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Yogi Berra, Mariel Hemingway, Ice-T, Dennis Franz, Geraldine Ferraro, Rosanna Arquette, Dana Buchman, among many others.

The author, Allison Gilbert, a three-time Emmy award-winning journalist, lost both of her parents by the time she was thirty-one.