Caged Momentum: A memoir of goodness in grief

By Ruby Cheng

Self-Publishing Review Finalist 2023 - Top 10% of all entrants Carrying readers through the highs and lows of a tragedy-spotted life, this memoir explores the ways--both healthy and unhealthy--that we process and handle grief, and offers a hopeful promise of healing. The writing is deeply personal, as though readers are right there in the hospital waiting rooms and funeral homes, immersed in all the gut-wrenching moments being shared in blow-by-blow detail. There is a thru-note of faith and spiritual connection in the prose, as well as deep thematic explorations of family, cultural divides, PTSD, memory, survivor's guilt, therapy, the experience of widows, and the comfort of religion. Book description: There are so many expectations in life. Birth--you are expected to live. You need to get an education, find a job, mature, marry someone you love, and maybe start a family. Death--it is so morbid to talk about. But all of us will die one day. When that day comes, you will leave behind a trail of people who love you, cannot function without you, or simply wonder what happened. This is a book for anyone whose life has been turned upside down from what they expected. I was one of them when my mother passed away from an aggressive form of breast cancer, when infertility crushed my dream to start a family, and when my husband suddenly passed away at the young age of thirty-nine. This is my journey through the darkest days and how God taught me joy is possible through Him. The unexpected in life is not exclusive to our dark times, but joy can absolutely be unexpected in this roller coaster ride called life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CNZMG996
• ISBN13: 9798861700498
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.6" x 5.5"