Everyone receives something from their mother.

What Darcy Leech received is nothing short of inspiring

Riveting, soulful, and courageously told, "From My Mother" is a meditation on grief, family, genetic disease and also a deeply personal account of the narrator's coming-of-age amid medical crisis and tragedy to carry on the lessons from her mother to raise her young son. A story of loss on many levels, "From My Mother" is a moving book that transforms suffering into art and inspiration.

Leech weaves a beautiful tapestry of the enduring mysteries of what dormant harbingers of...