What should have been Carole Radziwill’s storybook romance and happy life quickly turns into a series of tragedies in her new memoir, What Remains : A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love. Carole comes from a middle-class background working as an ABC reporter when she meets her future husband, Anthony Radziwill, who just so happens to be Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ nephew and first cousins with John F. Kennedy Jr. Carole and Anthony date, fall in love, and marry, and also become close friends with Anthony’s cousin and his new wife, Carolyn Bessett. Suddenly, Anthony gets diagnosed with cancer and dies, but not before JFK Jr., his wife, and her sister all perish in a senseless crash. Radziwill’s strength is in depicting small, but heartbreaking, scenes such as those of JFK Jr. holding his cousin’s hand and softly singing a song from their childhood or Director Mike Nichols coming to the hospital and handing out sandwiches to the nurses. Radziwill doesn’t market this book as a Kennedy book, but a story about close bonds of family, friendship, and love that surpass even death.