Liza Shaub is a debut memoirist

based in Baltimore whose debut book traces the years her family lived in the shadow of her mother’s ALS diagnosis—capturing the humor, chaos, and grace that threaded through uncertainty.

Her work isn’t interested in explaining pain away. She doesn’t tidy it up. She lets it exist on the page, trusting the reader to sit with it.

A former tech and sales professional, Liza writes from the unglamorous spaces where grief, gratitude, confusion, and joy overlap—the messy miracle we all live in. She explores how grief settles in the body, what it means to mother (then and now), and the ways love endures without needing to be tidy.

If you’ve ever loved someone who disappointed you, if you’ve sat with anger you weren’t sure you were allowed to feel, or if you’ve learned that forgiveness doesn’t erase pain—you’ll recognize yourself in these pages.