What Remains

On a clear summer night in July 1999, a small plane plunged into the Atlantic Ocean carrying John Kennedy and his wife Carolyn Bessette. Three weeks later, one week short of his fortieth birthday, John's cousin Anthony Radziwill died of cancer. In this extraordinarily moving and candid memoir, Carole Radziwill, Anthony's young widow and close friend of John and Carolyn, tells her story: how she met and fell in love with Anthony through their careers as television journalists; how she became part of America's most iconic family; how she nursed her husband through his desperate illness. And how she called the Coast Guard to start the search for the missing plane. A candid, intimate and compelling story of love, bereavement and, ultimately, resilience, What Remains explores the intricacies of marriage, the importance of friendship and the pain of living with unthinkable loss.