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The Dead Moms Club
A Memoir about Death, Grief, and Surviving the Mother of All Losses
Contributors
By Kate Spencer
Formats and Prices
- On Sale
- Feb 9, 2027
- Page Count
- 288 pages
- Publisher
- Seal Press
- ISBN-13
- 9781541609785
Price
$19.99Price
$25.99 CADFormat
Format:
- Trade Paperback (Revised) $19.99 $25.99 CAD
- ebook $11.99 $15.99 CAD
- Audiobook Download (Unabridged)
- Trade Paperback $18.99 $24.99 CAD
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“The perfect ‘how to’ book for the unimaginable.” —Casey Wilson, coauthor of The Art of Small Talk
Kate Spencer lost her mom to cancer when she was twenty-seven. In The Dead Moms Club, she recounts her experience of stumbling through grief and loss, and helps readers to get through it, too. This isn’t a weepy, sentimental story, but rather a frank, empathetic look at what it means to go through gruesome grief and come out on the other side. In prose that’s both poignant and funny, Spencer describes how losing her mother changed nearly everything in her life and shares cheeky but useful advice, like an “It’s None of Your Business Card” to hand out to nosy strangers.
Updated with a preface on the persistence of grief over time, The Dead Moms Club offers essential guidance and companionship for anyone experiencing the loss of a loved one.
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"Kate Spencer is the BFF I wish I had when my mother died. I had dear friends, mind you. Just not the kind who'd also been rocked by grief and could make me laugh-until-I-cried about it. Well done!"Allison Gilbert, author of Passed and Present: Keeping Memories of Loved Ones Alive
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"The most tragic things are also the ones we most need to laugh about. Thankfully Kate Spencer is here to lead us to those laughs with grace and charm."Chris Gethard, author of A Bad Idea I'm About to Do
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"This is the perfect 'how to' book for the unimaginable, and Kate is the dearest friend you could want beside you the whole way. She will become your new cheerleader."Casey Wilson
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"This book destroyed me. But not in a 'It made me so depressed!' kind of way. It destroyed me because it was just so deeply relatable. It made me remember my own mother, and made me wish I had met Kate's. I spent the entire book not only laughing and crying, but just so pissed Kate's mom couldn't read it herself. She would be so proud. It's incredible."Chris Kelly
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"Although her memoir is a raw and moving account of a daughter's loss, Spencer's comedic wit prevails."Booklist
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"Improbably—and irresistibly—funny"People
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"Heartbreaking and hilarious."BUST.com
