Now You See the Sky [Hardcover]

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.
--Kirkus Reviews

A compassionate journey in grief and recovery...The memoir is the transcendence from the grief that soon finds this joyful young family.
--207

An extraordinary memoir. Forthright, honest and haunting...Murray's memoir is wise and enlightened.
--Portland Press Herald

Catharine H. Murray's middle son, Chan, was diagnosed with a rare and complicated form of leukemia at the heartbreaking age of five. After Western medicine did all it could do, Catharine, her husband, and her three boys moved to a remote cabin in Thailand where Chan spent his final months. Today we're talking about her bookNow You See the Sky, a beautiful memoir that recounts the devastating reality of the loss of her child...and how death asked her to 'nail her feet to the floor' to stay present throughout.
--Coming Back with Shelby Forsythia(podcast)

Now You See the Skyis so real, so tender and so painful that its impact will be felt long after the last page...It must have been very difficult for Murray to tell this story, so personal yet so necessary, but she writes with such honesty and clarity, sure to evoke strong reader reactions.
--Kennebec Journal

A gorgeously written memoir that burrows deep into the heart.
--Brevity Magazine

Now You See the Skyis singular--as wise, beautiful, and elegiac as it is specific and in-the-moment. It's a rare meml…