The writer of It’s Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking-interviews that are “a gift to be able to listen [to]” (New York Times)-returns with more hilarious meditations on her messy, wonderful, bittersweet, and unconventional existence.

Life has a million various ways to kick you best in the chops. We reduce love, lose careers, lose our sense of self. For Nora McInerny, it was losing her spouse, her dad, and her unborn second child in a single catastrophic season. about No Content Endings: A Memoir

But in the wake of reduction, we reach assemble something new from whatever is left behind. Some circles contact finding joy after loss “Chapter 2”-the continuation of something else. Today, Nora is normally remarried and mothers four children aged 16 weeks to 16 years. While her new circumstances provide her extraordinary pleasure, they are also tinged with sadness on the family members she’s lost.

Life has made Nora a reluctant professional in hard conversations. On her wildly popular podcast, she discusses painful encounters we inevitably face, and exposes the absurdity from the question “how are you?” that people often consult when we’re dealing with the aftermath of psychological catastrophe. She knows intimately that when your daily life falls apart, there’s a mad rush to become okay-to look for a metallic lining, to get to the happy closing. In this, her second memoir, Nora gives a tragicomic exploration of the strain between finding joy and keeping space for the unhappy experiences that have shaped us.

No Happy Endings is a book for folks living lifestyle after life has fallen aside. It’s a publication for people who understand that they’re moving forward, not shifting. It’s a reserve for people who know life isn’t always happy, but it isn’t the finish: you will see unimaginable joy and incomprehensible tragedy. As Nora reminds us, you will see no happy endings-but you will see new beginnings.