Mom's Book is a memoir-in-essays born from a mother's attempt to stay close to her son, and her discovery that love does not disappear but continues to speak.
Through a nonlinear rhythm of memory and music, Wendy Goldberg traces the life she shared with her son Ben as they moved through illness and the maze of modern medicine. What began as a private journal opens into a living conversation between mother and son, body and spirit, as certainty fades and meaning quietly takes shape.
"Western medicine held the body, while something older and quieter tended the spirit."
From hospital rooms to what goes unsaid, Ben's presence becomes the thread that weaves this story together. In a mosaic of moments, Mom's Book resists narratives of cure or closure and settles into a meditation on what endures.
Written for readers drawn to emotional depth and beauty, Mom's Book listens for love beyond goodbye.