Dream New Dreams

A remarkably frank, deeply moving and thematically rich memoir about death, dying and the grieving process, by the wife of the late Randy Pausch, author of The Last Lecture.

'I asked Jai what she has learned since my diagnosis,' Randy Pausch wrote about his wife in The Last Lecture. 'Turns out, she could write a book titled Forget the Last Lecture; Here's the Real Story.'

Dream New Dreams traces Jai's experiences since Randy's diagnosis, from the constant struggle she faced as a mother of three small children, to the burdens and dilemmas that accompany the role of caregiver: navigating the steep medical learning curve; managing finances; often neglecting one's own needs; making gut-wrenching decisions; and dealing with emotions ranging from guilt and resentment, to our greatest human qualities of compassion and love. With concrete advice woven artfully into a personal narrative, Dream New Dreams will resonate and appeal not only to the legions of readers who made The Last Lecture a phenomenal bestseller, but also to all those who have lost - or are in the process of losing - a loved one.