The Dead Moms Club
A Memoir about Death, Grief, and Surviving the Mother of All Losses

A warning to potential readers: don’t start this book unless you have time to finish it in one or two sittings. It’s that good. Spencer writes in an engaging, self-deprecating and chatty style about a topic that most of us will experience in our lives, and her observations are heart-felt and true. Y......more

Let's start off with why I'm here: I'm a part of this club. I never would've thought to order this book online if I wasn't. And I'm glad I did. My rating for this book is based on how much it helped me — and it helped me, hence the full rating. I would read this book again. I was sad I finished it t......more

"You have one long, messy, weird, beautiful life. People come in and out of it, live and die, and affect us in enormous and not-so-enormous ways. Your mom's death is now a piece of you, a new dent on the side of the strange, misshapen thing that is your life." *** As a member of the Dead Moms Club for......more

Very heavy. Brought up a lot of grief. I had to break it up over a long period of time and come back to it little by little when I was ready. But it was an amazing book. I would recommend to anyone grieving the loss of their mother, especially young women. "And the fifth and final rule of the Dead M......more

To be totally honest, I know Kate IRL (brag) and read an early draft of this book (double brag) so you can take this review with NO grains of salt because, girl, I can be objective. This is a really funny, moving, vulnerable memoir about the biggest, worst loss in Kate’s life, and all the smaller, b......more