A River Runs Through Us: What Remains After Life Breaks Open - Paperback

A River Runs Through Us: What Remains After Life Breaks Open is a memoir in vignettes - honest, unhurried stories about healing, motherhood, and faith. Shaped by crisis pregnancy and adoption, illness, ministry, and estrangement, it follows one woman's long journey from contempt for her younger self toward compassion.

Michelle Thooft writes for women who have carried shame about who they were - as a mother, a daughter, a wife - and shows what it looks like to finally stop exiling themselves from their own story. Through scenes rather than explanations, the book traces the slow, often messy work of self-forgiveness, and what remains when life breaks open and grace gets in anyway.

A River Runs Through Us is for any reader navigating grief without resolution, faith without easy answers, and the long work of making peace with who they used to be.