How Much Big Is the Sky: A Memoir of a Mother's Love and Unfathomable Loss

How Much Big Is the Sky is a mother's searingly melodic and eloquent love song to her teenage son, Ryan, following his sudden death resulting from a car crash. Sherry Chapman captures the intimacy and immediacy of her experience with a rare combination of profound tenderness, literary skill, and raw candor. Written in the first person, present tense over a period of several years, this stunning account of love and loss is structured in five parts resembling the various stages of grief. From...