Conspiring to Heal: A Love Story

(Buena Vista Books) The author and his wife, Maria Grayson-Metaxas ’83, met at Princeton. When she was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2010, Metaxas began keeping a journal. This book is a record of the last few years of her life and how her illness affected their family. Metaxas describes the journey from diagnosis to her death: from their appointments with experts and explaining her situation to their young son to the comfort they received from a spiritual teacher and Grayson-Metaxas’ final moments. “Maria taught me to have faith in what I could not see, in what opened the heart, and in what was improbable,” writes Metaxas. “She taught me how to love and, eventually, how to die.” Metaxas is a writer and psychotherapist.