A Heart That Works: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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When we meet for lunch near Madison Square Park that afternoon, Delaney says that his followers suggested plenty of warm places to swim, but nowhere on the open water.

It is pages and pages of blog postings and stand up routines about how Henry’s death affected Rob Delaney and how much Rob Delaney grieved and how much Rob Delaney loved his family.

Some of his funniest advice in the book is for bereaved parents, with Delaney writing that he thought about telling God to fuck off. When the acquaintance leaves, defeated in his quest to make emotionally safe small talk, the women burst into the “cackling, dolphin-like laughter of the insane. That he is able to do so with such guiltless, funny and disarming honesty is testament to the profound effect of Henry’s short but meaningful life.

I had no idea it was going to be Rob Delaney, he who is beloved by me for the small, but crucial role of Peter in Deadpool 2 (X-Force! Every bereaved parent’s story is as unique and their own as the perfect tiny human they created and their relationship with them, but there are touchpoints that we all share. In another, Delaney’s mom and sister start telling an acquaintance about what the family is dealing with: in addition to Henry’s cancer, Delaney’s brother-in-law has killed himself.

Despite our best efforts, there may always be an uncrossable chasm between those who have experienced it and those who have not. To any of his readers who work for private-insurance companies, he has a message: “fuck off and fuck you, forever. He knows that he’s writing a tearjerker, and is obviously wary of the genre; he doesn’t want Henry’s life to be just a pile of sadness.