Everything All at Once: A Memoir

A New York Times bestseller, "Everything All At Once" is a raw and evocative memoir of a woman's experience with grief and the redemptive power of love as she endures her husband's 84-day battle with lung cancer. The author's account of how this crisis forced her to confront her past is raw, illuminating, and heartbreaking, including her father's death, a decade of rebellion, and struggles with alcoholism and drugs. The book is a heart-wrenching and ultimately uplifting reflection on resilience and a powerful reminder that we can find healing no matter how broken we are.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 20 July 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

An intimate and evocative memoir, Everything All At Once explores the universal experience of grief and the redemptive power of love through the lens of one woman's journey as she witnesses her husband's 84-day battle with lung cancer. When Steph Catudal met her husband, Rivs, she believed that the love, stability, and warmth they shared had finally dispelled her pent-up anger and grief over the loss of her father and her faith. However, when Rivs became ill and was placed in a coma at the height of the pandemic, the painful memories of her childhood resurfaced, haunting her once again.

Written with lush lyricism, Steph's account of how this crisis forced her to confront her past is raw, illuminating, and heartbreaking. Her father's death, which shattered her faith in God and set off a decade of rebellion, including running away from home and living out of a van at age 16, struggling with alcoholism, and delving into drugs to ease her pain. As she sat by Rivs's bedside, she grappled with the memories of the past and the uncertainties of the future, while also reckoning with the unknowns of her husband's illness. Rivs would endure a grueling 84 days in a medically induced coma, eventually undergoing chemotherapy for a similar illness that had taken her father's life.

Like Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart, Everything All At Once is a heart-wrenching and ultimately uplifting reflection on resilience and a powerful reminder that we can find healing, no matter how broken we may feel.

Weight: 362g
Dimension: 159 x 236 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780063253131