For fans of photography and storytelling, Stacy Bass's Lightkeeper captures her deeply personal journey through grief with the loss of her parents.

Lightkeeper is a memoir about love and loss that centers on author Stacy Waldman Bass’s losses of her parents, Michael and Jessica Waldman. Following the tragic death of her father in a private seaplane accident on Block Island in 1995, Stacy began to write as a way to understand and process the excruciating grief. Some 25 years later, her mother was diagnosed with and ultimately died from pancreatic cancer after a one year battle against that harrowing disease. During her mother’s illness, Stacy created a living tribute, using both images and words, to help build a community of support around her mother. By using collected family photographs in this way, Stacy recognized the potency that they held as a portal into memory; a way of accessing the narrative and stories just outside the frame. Lightkeeper is a moving exploration of those memories and sets a beautiful example about how actively keeping the light of those who have been lost can be an extraordinarily powerful way to process and cope with grief.