ISBN: 1617756717 9781617756719

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs

Page count: 265

<p><b><i><b>This memoir — the first release on best-selling author Ann Hood’s Gracie Belle imprint — about the fathomless loss of a beloved child reveals how tragedy can transform us and make us more fully alive.</b></i></b></p><p>“Murray’s lucid meditations and living-in-the-moment attitude — e.g., providing simple pleasures like a favorite food to a sick child — serve as useful reminders to all of us that life is precious and fleeting and must be enjoyed to the fullest. It’s a simple message but an important one. As much a eulogy to Chan as a testament to the joy of life, the book is a heartwarming tale of dealing with life-altering loss . . . A tender, love-filled story of how one woman dealt with the loss of a young child.” —<i>Kirkus Reviews</i><br><br> “An extraordinary memoir. Forthright, honest and haunting . . . Murray’s memoir is wise and enlightened.” <i>—Portland Press Herald</i></p><p><i>Now You See the Sky</i> is a memoir about love, motherhood, and loss. When Catharine H. Murray travels to a small town on the banks of the Mekong River to work at a refugee camp, she falls in love and marries a local man with whom she has three sons. When their middle son is diagnosed with cancer at age five, their pursuit of a cure takes them from Thailand to Seattle, before they eventually return to Thailand, settling on a remote mountaintop. Full of honesty and grace, <i>Now You See the Sky </i>— the debut selection in Ann Hood’s new Gracie Belle imprint — allows the reader to witness the fathomless loss of a child and learn how tragedy can transform us, expand our vision, and make us more fully alive.<br><br><i>Now You See the Sky</i> is the debut selection of Ann Hood’s new nonfiction imprint with Akashic, Gracie Belle. Modeled after her experience writing the memoir <i>Comfort: A Journey Through Grief</i>, and named after her daughter, Grace, Hood’s imprint reaffirms for authors and readers that none of us is alone in our journeys.</p>