That death takes something from you

The author Naya Maria Ait recounts details of a tragic moment that would later shock her life: "I raise a toast with my eldest son. His pregnant wife slept with their daughter upstairs. It was a clear, cold, bright evening." "Cheers to life!" I say to him as the glasses clink sharply with a ringing sound. My mother says something to the dog. Then the phone rings. We didn't pick up. WHO is calling at this late hour on Saturday night? In March 2015, the author's son Naya Maria Ait died in an accident at the age of twenty-five. "If death takes something from you, return it to him" is a book describing the first two years after receiving the ominous message, the shock gradually settling in. A precise description of life all at once after losing a child, how grief changes a person's relationship with their reality, with those closest to them, with time? - It is a book about loss and love.