The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared

Casey needs a family of her own: the joys and the sorrows, people who love her, and a place she belongs-what Zorba the Greek called "the full catastrophe"-and she's determined to make it happen.

Adrift in the world after losing her father to a heart attack when she was eleven and her mother to cancer soon after, the death of her only sibling eight years later strengthens her resolve.

Casey marries, has three children, and though she struggles with grief and a shaky sense of her place in the ...