Letters to My Mother

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When her mother died unexpectedly during the pandemic </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lianne Kernan</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> was across the border unable to return home or say goodbye. In the shock of grief she began to write.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What started as a private ritual became </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Letters to My Mother: A Memoir of Grief</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. Written across a year of mourning the seventy-three letters unfold as both a confession and conversation to her mother. Through them Lianne unravels the layered ache of memory forgiveness and the hope found in moving forward.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The book is divided into three movements: </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sunset Night</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sunrise</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. Each reflects a stage of transformation; grief as shock grief as surrender and grief as renewal.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With prose that is lyrical and at times unguarded </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Letters to My Mother</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> joins the tradition of literary memoirs like Joan Didion's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Year of Magical Thinking</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and Cheryl Strayed's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Tiny Beautiful Things</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This revised 2025 edition includes refined letters an expanded epilogue spanning three years and the closing poem </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Grief Taught Me to Sit Still.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>More than a story about loss it is a meditation on endurance grace and the ways love continues to speak long after goodbye.</span></p>