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The Saving That Came After Loss: A Novel of Grief, Grace, and Starting Over
Paperback
Series: What We Carry
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 19 2025
Pages: 404
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When your heart stops, what part of you survives?
Krysta Montgomery never expected to bury her mother at the kitchen table. She never expected to survive a heart attack in her thirties. And she certainly never expected to find herself unpacking decades of grief, trauma, and religion in front of a stranger with a notepad and a kind smile.
In The Saving That Came After Loss, Krysta's story unfolds with fierce honesty and quiet humor. Raised in a home where love came wrapped in Bible verses and expectations, she's spent a lifetime trying to outrun her body, her past, and her mother's relentless need for control masked as care. But when a sudden loss shatters her routine, Krysta is forced to reckon with what's left: her mother's Bible, a pile of unresolved memories, and a girlfriend whose steady love feels almost too generous to accept.
This is a novel about what we inherit, what we carry, and what we choose to let go. A tender and biting exploration of queer identity, religious trauma, binge eating, body image, and the long road to self-forgiveness, The Saving That Came After Loss is both a love letter to complicated mothers and a roadmap for healing after everything falls apart.
Perfect for readers who loved Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton, Wild by Cheryl Strayed, or Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid.
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