"There is a passage in this memoir that changed my view of everything: life, its meaning, and how I think about love. Alle Mudrick has articulated emotions I've been unable to put words to for myself, and she's done it in a way that left me feeling bigger and more alive. This true story of unbearable loss brims with hope. I want to give it to every mother I know." -Mary Adkins, You Might Feel a Little Pressure
"The glory and rawness of this book shocked and held me. Blue Hour Homecoming is a gorgeous, technicolor, lyrical journey through loss, longing, and the hidden spaces of life. With tender yet unflinching prose, Mudrick explores the delicate balance between fertility and identity, finding meaning in the margins. This collection invites readers into the quiet, overlooked corners of the body and soul, offering a poignant meditation on how home can be found in the unexpected. This book is poetry in motion." -Mira Ptacin, Poor Your Soul
"In this chronicle of one woman's journey to motherhood outside the womb, Mudrick has gifted us with the spectrum of existence: this is a story of life, death, and the particular human condition that is surviving both at the same time. Raw, courageous, feminist, and feisty, this memoir is a must-read for everyone who mothers." -Courtney Maum, The Year of the Horses
"A must-read for anyone who has been through loss. With the intimacy and candidness of a good friend, Alle Mudrick turns grief inside out and bares all of its truth: its enormity, its devastation, but also its capacity for light and growth. You will feel yourself right alongside Mudrick on her journey through life after loss-unwittingly caring for your own wounds along the way." -Annie Sklaver Orenstein, Always a Sibling
"Blue Hour Homecoming is a memoir that lays bare the realities of grief-the way it swells and recedes and swells. Mudrick invites the reader into her story with incredible vulnerability and masterful tenderness. In her own words, she shows us the infinitely complex experience of 'loving and hurting with abandon,' and through elegant prose illustrates the clarity of memory cemented by trauma and loss-how our most painful memories often live most vividly in our minds." -Brittany Means, Hell If We Don't Change Our Ways
"A beautiful, breathless read. A wise and luminous meditation on womanhood, Blue Hour Homecoming offers up the surprising generosity of heartbreak-the way it carves space for transformation and resilience. A powerhouse-read for anyone who has faced the fragility of reproduction, wrestled with the ache of absence, or understood what it means to carry both life and grief in the same breath." -Joselin Linder, The Family Gene
"A brave, honest and generous memoir. Mudrick's essential gift is to hold your hand while she tells not only her story but yours. Her words will heal long after the reading is done." -Vicki Forman, This Lovely Life
"A breathtaking, beautifully impressionistic narrative of the deepest love, and what it takes to birth yourself as a mother." -Sarah DiGregorio, Early
