Everything Left to Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains

This will cast a spell on fans of Cheryl Strayed and Glennon Doyle. - Publishers Weekly

Between Two Kingdoms meets Wild. In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her mother, who is suffering from dementia, embark on a road trip through national parks, revisiting the memories, and the mountains, that made them who they are.

Steph Jagger lost her mother before she lost her. Her mother, stricken with an incurable disease that slowly erases all sense of self, struggles to remember her favorite drink, her favorite song, and--perhaps most heartbreaking of all--Steph herself. Steph watches as the woman who loved and raised her slips away before getting the chance to tell her story, and so Steph makes a promise: her mother will walk it and she will write it.

Too aware of her mother's waning memory, Steph proposes that the two take a camping trip out to Montana--which her mother, on the urging of Steph's father, agrees to embark upon. An adventure full of horseback riding, hiking, and "tenting" out West quickly turns into one woman's reflection on childhood, motherhood, personhood--and what it means to love someone who doesn't quite remember the person she spent her lifetime becoming.

A staggeringly beautiful examination of how stories are passed down through generations and from Mother Nature, Everything Left to Remember brings us the wisdom of who our memories make us under the constellations of the vast Montana sky.

Author: Steph Jagger
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: 04/26/2022
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781250261830

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/24/2022
Publishers Weekly 01/31/2022 pg. 62
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2022
Library Journal 03/01/2022 pg. 142

About the Author
Steph Jagger lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington with her husband and two dogs. She is the founder and creator of multiple programs that help women move into deep levels of remembrance, so as to reclaim the fullness of who they are. Everything Left to Remember is Jagger's second book. Her first, Unbound: A Story of Snow and Self-Discovery was published in 2017.