Letters to My Mother

Lianne Kernan

• 19 oktober 2025
• 9798993344010

Samenvatting:

When her mother died unexpectedly during the pandemic, Lianne Kernan was across the border, unable to return home or say goodbye. In the shock of grief, she began to write.

What started as a private ritual became Letters to My Mother: A Memoir of Grief. Written across a year of mourning, the seventy-three letters unfold as both a confession and conversation to her mother. Through them, Kernan unravels the layered ache of memory, forgiveness, and the hope found in moving forward.

The book is divided into three movements: Sunset, Night, and Sunrise. Each reflects a stage of transformation; grief as shock, grief as surrender, and grief as renewal.

With prose that is lyrical and at times unguarded, Letters to My Mother joins the tradition of literary memoirs like Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things.

This revised 2025 edition includes refined letters, an expanded epilogue spanning three Decembers, and the closing poem "Grief Taught Me to Sit Still."

More than a story about loss, it is a meditation on endurance, grace, and the ways love continues to speak long after goodbye.