Everything All at Once: A Memoir

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An intimate and evocative memoir one womans experience with the universality of grief and the redemptive power of love as she endures her husbands 84-day battle with lung cancer.

When Steph Catudal met her husband Rivs, she thought that the love, stability, and warmth she shared with her husband had finally dispelled her pent-up anger and grief over the loss of her father and her faith. But when Rivs became ill and was put into coma at the height of the pandemic, the painful memories of her childhoodwatching her father die of cancercame flooding back.

Written with lush lyricism, Stephs account of how this crisis forced her to confront her past is raw, illuminating, and heartbreaking: her fathers death that wrecked her faith in God and jumpstarted 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. Sitting by Rivs's bedside, she grappled with the memories of the past and the uncertainties of the future while reckoning with the unknowns of her husbands illness. Rivs would endure a grueling 84 days in a medically induced coma, eventually undergoing chemo for a similar illness that stole her father.

Like Cheryl Strayeds Wild, and Michelle Zauners 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 are.

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What a gorgeous work, from such an important mind. Every word of Stephs writing is felt, in that shining place of hope we all somehow lose sight of. Few make words feel as revelatory and grounded in the gritty, natural truth of this life like she does. Tyler Knott Gregson, bestselling author of Chasers of Light Everything All At Once won't break your mortal heart, it will remind you that you have one. Alicia Cook, bestselling author of Stuff Ive Been Feeling Lately and Sorry I Havent Texted You Back

Author Bio

Steph Catudal is the author of Everything All At Once, an adjunct professor in Media and Peacebuilding, and a trained interpersonal mediator. Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, she is a beach nomad at heart, and lives with her husband and three daughters.