A moving and powerful debut novel celebrating and embracing the richness of life, even in the face of death.Not long after giving birth to her eighth child, Renie Staggers—a thirty-nine-year-old wife and mother—is diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer with only three months to live. In confronting her own mortality, Renie creates a journal to leave for her children. While writing and reflecting, Renie realizes that she has spent her life in duty of others—her parents, her family, her husband, and children. With this sudden and momentous revelation, her fear and subsequent preparation for death becomes replaced with an intense desire to live her last days on her terms. With writing that’s both wise and wistful, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone is a triumphant celebration of the human spirit from a powerful and imaginative rising literary voice.