A review by mindtravelagent
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss by Anderson Cooper

4.0

I picked this up yesterday at the library and couldn't put it down.

I really enjoyed the correspondence format, the conversational style between the two of them. Of course her son does die to the nature of his work, but Vanderbilt is a fine wordsmith as well.

This book was the result of a need to build some closeness and new understanding between the two of them after a brief illness she had, and the unintended chasms that can emerge between loved ones following death and tragedy.

I also found it oddly synchronistic to be reading this when I was thinking deeply about parent/child relationships following the one two passing away of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds.