“Unraveling Desires and Dread: A Deep Dive into Casey Mulligan Walsh’s ‘The Full Catastrophe'”
Readers, if you’ve been searching for the next great early loss book, look no further. (This one rightly earned well-known author and grief therapist Claire Bidwell Smith’s praise.) But even if — like me — you’ve been fortunate enough to make it through your formative years without losing those closest to you, you will still appreciate this memoir for its rich language, its humanity, and especially its searingly honest and relatable narrator who is, she tells us, “…determined to live the life I have and not the one I fear,” while refusing to be defined by the “relentless march of deaths” that have followed her — even her son’s. Writing, “[I won’t] let mother of the boy who died become all that I am,” Walsh makes room for multiple truths and “a pinpoint of joy.”
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