Thank You for Staying with Me

Gold Medal for the 2025 IPPY Award Winner of the 2025 International Book Award in Best New Nonfiction ​Finalist for the 2025 International Book Award in Nonfiction: Creative Urgent, meditative, and searching, Thank You for Staying with Me is a collection of essays that navigates the complexities of home, the vulnerability of being a woman, mother-daughter relationships, and young motherhood in the conservative and religious landscape of the Ozarks. Using cosmology as a foil to discuss human issu