First published 2023
Steph Catudal believed her marriage to Rivs had healed the wounds left by her father's death from cancer. She thought the love and stability they shared had quieted her anger and restored what grief had taken from her. Then the pandemic hits, and Rivs falls critically ill. Doctors place him in a medically induced coma that will last 84 days. Sitting beside his hospital bed, Steph confronts memories she thought she had buried. Her father's cancer death had shattered her faith in God and sent her spiraling into a decade of rebellion. She ran away from home at sixteen, lived in a van, battled alcoholism, and turned to drugs to numb the pain. Now, watching her husband fight lung cancer, the same disease that killed her father, she must reckon with her past while facing an uncertain future. This memoir chronicles how crisis forced her to examine the connections between love, loss, and healing.
Genres: christian, grief, addiction, autobiography, contemporary, biography-memoir, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: crisis, facing-the-past, second-chance
Period: Pandemic
240 pages · Hardcover · HarperOne
Content warnings: death, mental-illness