title: Your Birthday Book: A Keepsake Journal
author:  Amy Krouse Rosenthal 
description: <b>Amy Krouse Rosenthal</b> was born in 1965, and graduated from Tufts University. A prolific writer, speaker, film maker, and radio show host, she also contributed to TED Talks and wrote several adult and children's books. She lived in Chicago with her husband and children for several years, and then announced on March 3, 2017, that she was terminally ill with cancer. Her essay for the Modern Love columnin <i>the New York Times,</i> entitled "You May Want to Marry My Husband," went viral online.She died on March 13, 2017.
zlib_text: > > THE BIRTHDAY WEEKEND
  
  > > A TOTALLY UNPUTDOWNABLE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
  
  > LESLEY SANDERSON
  
  > ![](Images/image00121.jpeg)[ ](http://www.bookouture.com)
  
  > > BOOKS BY LESLEY SANDERSON
  
  [ _ _The Birthday Weekend__](https://geni.us/B08JQF4T9Yendmatter2)
  
  [ _ _I Know You Lied__](https://geni.us/B086C6BF22endmatter2)
  
  [ _ _The Leaving Party__](https://geni.us/B0828ZT6B4endmatter2)
  
  [ _ _The Woman at 46 Heath Street__](http://geni.us/B07MRL53J1endmatter2)
  
  [ _ _The Orchid Girls__](http://geni.us/B07GGS6Q1Rendmatter2)
  
  > CONTENTS
  
  >  _Prologue_
  
  >  _Chapter 1_
  
  >  _Chapter 2_
  
  >  _Chapter 3_
  
  >  _Chapter 4_
  
  >  _*_
  
  >  _Chapter 5_
  
  >  _Chapter 6_
  
  >  _Chapter 7_
  
  >  _Chapter 8_
  
  >  _Chapter 9_
  
  >  _Chapter 10_
  
  >  _*_
  
  >  _Chapter 11_
  
  >  _Chapter 12_
  
  >  _Chapter 13_
  
  >  _*_
  
  >  _Chapter 14_
  
  >  _Chapter 15_
  
  >  _*_
  
  >  _Chapter 16_
  
  >  _Chapter 17_
  
  >  _Chapter 18_
  
  >  _Chapter 19_
  
  >  _Chapter 20_
  
  >  _Chapter 21_
  
  >  _*_
  
  >  _Chapter 22_
  
  >  _Chapter 23_
  
  >  _Chapter 24_
  
  >  _Chapte