The Life of Those Left BehindBy: Matteo B. Bianchi In this heartbreaking yet hopeful autobiographical novel, an acclaimed Italian author who lost his partner to suicide testifies to the power of storytelling in living with grief. When 30 year old Matteo B. Bianchi published his debut novel in 1999, the timing couldnt have been worse: he had just lost S., the man hed lived with for 7 years, who one day, a few months after they broke up, killed himself in their apartment. Matteo