LAS VEGAS—Adult performer and author Amber Chase has published The Dead Parent Book: Missing the Things That Most Mattered, a reflection on grief and journal of self-discovery.
“In a world of overly tidy grief guides and spiritual one-liners, Amber Chase delivers something radically different and powerfully candid—The Dead Parent Book: Missing the Things That Most Mattered, a creative grief journal that doesn’t offer closure—it offers company,” a representative said.
The Dead Parent Book invites readers into 52 weeks of “nonlinear, unfiltered reflection.” Each entry includes a film reference, a personal story, a journal prompt, and a poetry spark—"all designed to hold the kind of grief that doesn’t get better with time, just less visible,” the representative added. “What sets this book apart is its use of cinema as emotional translation. With films ranging from The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to The Babadook, Chase offers readers a second language for grief—one that doesn’t require neat conclusions.”
“This book started because I didn’t know where to put the weirdest parts of my grief—the absurd stuff, the stuff I was embarrassed to say out loud,” Chase said. “Like forgetting my Netflix password or losing it in the plumbing aisle at Lowe’s. I didn’t want a guidebook. I wanted something that could sit beside the mess without trying to clean it up.”
“Movies said what I couldn’t,” she explained. “They let me feel grief sideways—through scenes, through silence, through someone else’s chaos. Sometimes a single line of dialogue nailed what I’d been trying to explain for months.”
“There are already plenty of books that tell you how to grieve,” Chase added. “I wrote the one that says: I get it. You’re not crazy. You’re just human. And this sucks.”
The Dead Parent Book is currently available as an eBook on Amazon and, within the next few weeks, will also be released through major storefront retailers and independent bookstores, in both paperback and hardback.
