Where the stars come home: On being a child after losing your parents

There are goodbyes that never truly end. Not because we are unwilling to accept the loss, but because the bond between parent and child does not come to an end. It does not vanish. It changes form. It finds quiet ways to remain. It lives on in gestures that arise without thought, in a voice that carries their tone, in the sudden silence that seems to look at us without speaking.
Where the stars come home is not a book about grief. It is about what stays alive when everything else appears to have ended. It is a personal journey, intimate and incomplete, shaped by questions that do not expect answers and by moments of tenderness that remain unresolved.
This book is for those who have lost a mother or a father and felt themselves slipping away with them. It is for those who later discovered that being a child is not something one ever ceases to be, even when there is no longer anyone left to call them by name.
Born from loss, this book was written for anyone still searching for a place where that presence might be felt again. Perhaps that place is right here, quietly waiting, where the stars come home.