Estranged

Estranged is a memoir about the grief that does not get a funeral.

Gina Stevens writes about the pain of being separated from an adult child while life keeps moving around it. There are no casseroles, no sympathy cards, no clear rules for mourning someone who is still alive but no longer part of your daily life.

This is a book about motherhood, silence, anger, regret, and the brutal ache of loving someone you cannot reach. It follows the long, private unraveling of estrangement and the questions that come with it: what happened, what was missed, what was made worse, and what is left when love has nowhere to go.

Plainspoken, personal, and unguarded, Estranged gives voice to a kind of loss many people live with but rarely know how to explain.