Author Talk & Book Signing with Catharine Murray

Catharine H. Murray, author of Now You See the Sky (Akashic Books, 2018) inspires audiences with her personal story of loss and transformation and encourages others to find their own avenues of wellness through creativity. Her writing attests to the resilience of the human spirit and her talks create space for conversations about loss, healing and hope. Murray teaches the art of using writing as a tool for healing through workshops on poetry and memoir. Venues for her lectures and workshops have included Harvard University, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Hasbro Children’s Hospital and the Maine State Pr*son.

About Now You See the Sky: Travel to a Thai village and into the tangle of a young family as their middle son battles leukemia. Bask in the quiet rhythm of a culture steeped in Buddhist wisdom and practice. Feel the fathomless loss of a beloved child. Learn how tragedy can transform us, expand our vision and make us more fully alive. From www.catharinehmurray.com.

“Murray’s lucid meditations and living-in-the-moment attitude...serve as useful reminders to all of us that life is precious and fleeting and must be enjoyed to the fullest... A testament to the joy of life, the book is a heartwarming tale of dealing with life-altering loss…A tender, love-filled story of how one woman dealt with the loss of a young child.” —Kirkus Review

“Now You See the Sky is singular, as wise and beautiful and elegiac as it is specific and in-the-moment. It’s a rare memoir in that it gives the impression that time can be stopped. There are images in here, gestures of love, and its hard conversations, that a reader will remember forever.”
–Rick Bass, Winner of the 2017 Story Prize and author of For a Little While

“Now You See the Sky might be set in Thailand but even after only a few pages this gorgeous debut memoir is located firmly in the reader’s heart. I thank and applaud Catharine Murray for the openness, honesty, and beauty with which she tells this ungilded story of a mother’s love for a dying child. An essential recommendation for those living with loss.”
–Suzanne Strempek Shea, author of This Is Paradise: An Irish Mother’s Grief, an African Village’s Plight, and the Medical Clinic That Brought Fresh Hope to Both

Held in the Baldwin Room.

Host or Publisher East Hampton Library