Tony Stewart
Carrying the Tiger
Writer, filmmaker, software designer
New York, NY
BOOK COVER
BOOK DETAILS
Pub Date: April 29, 2025
Genre: Memoir
Publisher: West End Books
Page Count: 310
Format, ISBN, Price:
Paperback, 9798992264913, $17.99
Hardcover, 9798992264920, $29.99
ebook, 9798992264906, $7.99
Audiobook, 9798992264937, $17.99
ABOUT THE BOOK
In the spirit of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking comes Carrying the Tiger: Living with Cancer, Dying with Grace, Finding Joy While Grieving by Tony Stewart, a powerful story of love, loss, and recovery.
When Stewart’s wife, Lynn, receives a sudden and devastating diagnosis, their scramble begins to find effective treatment, navigate life-threatening setbacks, learn to live fully in the shadow of death, and, ultimately, to share the intimate grace of her final departure from this world. After Lynn’s death, with the help of friends old and new, Tony slowly climbs out of his shattering grief and, surprisingly, eases toward new love.
There is uncertainty, fear, and sorrow in his journey, but also tenderness and joy, along with a renewed perspective on what it means to live and love with one’s whole heart. Adapted from more than a decade of posts on CaringBridge.org that chronicled Tony’s odyssey, both at Lynn’s side and afterward, Carrying the Tiger is an honest, passionate, life-affirming tale about the full circle of life and death, one that offers a deeply intimate look at grief and its hopeful aftermath.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tony Stewart has made award-winning films for colleges and universities, written computer software that received rave reviews, designed a grants-management application that was used by three of the five largest charities in the world, and led the development of an international standard for the messages involved in buying and selling advertisements.
Tony and his late wife Lynn Kotula, a painter, traveled extensively in India and Southeast Asia, staying in small hotels off the beaten track and eating delicious food with their fingers when cutlery wasn’t available. Carrying the Tiger is his first book.
TIMELY TIE-INS
April
- Worldwide Bereaved Spouses Awareness Month
- Stress Awareness Month
- National Healthcare Decisions Day – 16
May
- Mental Health Awareness Month
- Older Americans Month
July
- Oneofusismissing Day – 8
August
- Happiness Happens Month
- World Lung Cancer Day – 1
- National Grief Awareness Day – 30
- We Love Memoirs Day – 31
September
- Self-Care Month
October
- World Hospice and Palliative Care Day – 8
SUGGESTED INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
- How did you come up with the title, Carrying the Tiger?
- Many books deal with grief and loss. What is unique about yours?
- During Lynn’s course of treatment and your interactions with the medical community, what were some of the more frustrating and gratifying experiences?
- When did you realize that your CaringBridge posts were the makings of a memoir?
- Why was it so important to you to keep friends informed throughout Lynn’s and your journey?
- You’re very open and raw in talking about your grief, something that isn’t easy for many men to express. Why do you think that is, and what do you hope to encourage in other men through your book?
- What were the challenges in converting the posts into a book?
- How did you reconcile yourself to the fact that, while this is largely Lynn’s story, it’s your memoir?
- Why was it important to you to have the arc of the book extend three years beyond Lynn’s death?
BOOK DETAILS
Pub Date: May 17, 2022
Genre: Memoir / Christian Inspirational
Publisher: She Writes Press
Page Count: 304
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1647429003
Price: $15.99
