Memoir The Incomplete Grave Stone

At the heart of the book is an unsettling metaphor: an incomplete gravestone bearing a name, a birth date, and a blank space where a death date should be. That blank space becomes a declaration—of agency reclaimed, of identity examined, and of freedom wrestled from shame. Drawing on trauma psychology, attachment theory, faith, and cultural critique, this book speaks to those who feel judged by timelines not of their choosing: the unmarried, the childfree, the late bloomers, the spiritually conflicted, and the quietly resilient. It is not a story about dying—but about refusing to live as though one already has.