The Dead Moms Club: A Memoir about Death, Grief, and Surviving the Mother of All Losses
Kate Spencer
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The Dead Moms Club: A Memoir about Death, Grief, and Surviving the Mother of All Losses
Kate Spencer
Kate Spencer lost her mom to cancer when she was 27. In The Dead Moms Club, she walks readers through her experience of stumbling through grief and loss, and helps them to get through it, too. This isn't a weepy, sentimental story, but rather a frank, up-front look at what it means to go through gruesome grief and come out on the other side. An empathetic read, The Dead Moms Club covers how losing her mother changed nearly everything in her life: both men and women readers who have lost parents or experienced grief of this magnitude will be comforted and consoled. Spencer even concludes each chapter with a cheeky but useful tip for readers (like the "It's None of Your Business Card" to copy and hand out to nosy strangers asking about your passed loved one).
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“I was high on my sorrow and never quite fully present.” Yup. My third dead-mom read of the year.
Although I am (unfortunately) a member of the dead mom’s club, I don’t belive I was the target audience for this book. This book was marketed as a humorous and relatable take on grief, but the writer had a very specific Millennial-brand of humor that I just couldn’t relate to and rarely laughed at. That was a disconnect I just couldn’t get over. I wanted to feel more seen than I did when reading this.
A good book, just not exactly for me. However, there were moments and lines that I understood deeply, and I appreciate Spencer’s brutal honesty and self-reflection. The last chapters were absolutely the best part. I, too, will always miss the essence of my mom, but I’m so glad to carry it.
I also think this book teeters more heavily into the self-help genre rather than the typical memoir.
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