“Unraveling Desires and Dread: A Deep Dive into Casey Mulligan Walsh’s ‘The Full Catastrophe'”
When Walsh is 11 and 12 years old respectively, she loses both of her parents to chronic illnesses ten months apart from one another (Dad followed by Mom), at which point she’s sent to live with cousins in another state. Not even a decade later, her only sibling, an older brother, dies when she’s twenty. As if that weren’t enough for one person to hold, Walsh’s firstborn child, whom she loves “with a love bigger than any [she’s] ever known,” is killed in a car crash when he’s twenty — information she graciously leads with, lest it might also be too much for us to hold.
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