A Smoke and a Song
A Memoir

I’m lucky enough to have received an advance copy of this book and boy, did I devour it! Sherry puts everything on the table in this raw, authentic, and vulnerable look inward at her life experiences. Sherry’s voice comes through clearly through her colorful writing- she will have you laughing out l......more

"I welcome the grief. I go toward it. There is something famil- iar, refreshing even, in mourning, in allowing the melancholy to deepen me. It is a visit from an old self, the me-who-kneeled-in- my-mother’s-plants self, the me-in-my-mother’s-worried-womb self, perhaps even a past-life self that live......more

From the first page until the last page, I was thoroughly engrossed in this moving memoir by Sherry Sidoti.......more

In A Smoke and a Song, Sherry Sidoti offers an intimate and deeply moving memoir that resonates with readers on multiple levels. The narrative, set against the backdrop of the global pandemic and the looming loss of Sidoti’s mother to terminal cancer, explores themes of spirituality, human connectio......more

In January of 2021, Sherry Sidoti’s mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer and she has one last chance to make amends with her past. Her father left when she was a year old, leaving her mother, Babette, to raise three girls on her own. Babette often worked three jobs to make ends meet and was not......more