Media Reviews of The Suitcase and The Jar
About Grief “A profoundly moving story of a mother’s courage and resilience. It explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: how one finds the strength to reconfigure a new life by necessity.”
BCBooklook “We gravitate to memoir for inspiration. In The Suitcase and the Jar, readers will find a quiet and comforting whisper, one that reminds us that, “If I could do this, I could do anything”. It is a devastating, poetic, and ultimately beautiful meditation on living after loss.”
North Shore News: Mother fulfills daughter’s dying wish to keep traveling.
49th Shelf’s Books of the Year: Nonfiction
Articles and Interviews
49th Shelf article – Becky Livingston on Endings, Courage, Uncertainty, and Surrender
CBC News With only her daughter’s ashes and a suitcase, a B.C. mother spent 26 months on the road.
‘In a way, writing the story, it just kept her close, too. It just took a different form’