The rainbow bridge, said quietly.

A hardcover memorial book for the pet who has gone. A hardcover. Illustrated illustrated for this one book. The only edition.

What the press does with the rainbow bridge.

We do not render it as a cartoon. We do not print a bridge with pawprints and a golden sky. We do not use the phrase as the title of the book, because you already know what the book is about.

What we do is write the story of the animal you had — in long sentences, in the present tense, in the room and the garden and the routes you shared. We write to the weight of the bond. We do not try to make the loss smaller by decorating it. We try to make the animal larger — more alive on the page than they are in any photograph — because the page can hold what the photograph cannot.

The memorial books by species.

• Dog — For the dog who has gone.
• Cat — For the cat who chose you.
• Horse — For the horse who was yours for decades.
• Rainbow bridge for a cat — For a cat specifically, in that register.
• Fish — For the small kingdom that was his.

A note on endings.

The book does not end with a bridge. It ends with the last ordinary scene — the chair, the room, the small repeated habit, the familiar quiet. What comes after that scene is left to the reader. The press is not in the business of explaining what happens next. We are in the business of holding what was.

Thirty-two pages. Hardcover. Matte hardcover, perfect-bound. Ships in a plain box. Signed at the colophon. After it ships, the file is closed.

Eighty-five dollars. One edition. One named animal.

More from the press.

• Pet loss gift — For someone whose pet has died.
• Pets hub — All pet storybooks.
• Personalized pet book — The full press overview.

a storybook no one else has ever read.