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Catherine’s 2025 Year in Books
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Catherine Shields
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The Shape of Normal: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability and Embracing a Different Kind of Perfect
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Here’s an excerpt from my book, a story published in Bacopa Literary Review
Here’s the link: https://www.amazon.com/Bacopa-Literar...
The Messenger
My cousin Charlie and I stand six feet apart in my living room. I imagine he has already calculated the prescribed distance before he even stepped over the threshold. He hasn’t changed. Not since I saw him ten years ago when he came to my wedding and wore what seemed to be an exact replica of that long, black coat.
When he call
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"This is the tragic true story of the brutal murder and aftermath of the life of Charla Mack at the hands of her husband, Darren, as told by her mother, Soorya Townley. Soorya is contacted by her Charla’s neighbor and told that Darren had shot the Jud"
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Catherine Shields
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The Shape of Normal: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability and Embracing a Different Kind of Perfect
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Catherine Shields
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The Shape of Normal: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability and Embracing a Different Kind of Perfect:
"This book gave me permission to breathe. Cathy’s intense single-mindedness, her belief that the right routine/therapy/love could undo reality... that is a form of love, but it’s also a form of torture. Her epiphany that her daughter was "never broken"
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Catherine Shields
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The Shape of Normal: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability and Embracing a Different Kind of Perfect
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Catherine Shields
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Everett Langston's review
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The Shape of Normal: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability and Embracing a Different Kind of Perfect:
"The prose here is exceptional. Shields has a way of describing the small moments of motherhood a toddler’s hand, a silent car ride, a look between spouses that carry the weight of entire worlds. The central metaphor of the "shape of normal" is brilli"
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Jun 16, 2026 10:37AM
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Catherine Shields
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September W.’s review
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The Shape of Normal: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability and Embracing a Different Kind of Perfect
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Catherine Shields
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Donna Hanaah’s review
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The Shape of Normal: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability and Embracing a Different Kind of Perfect
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Thank you so much for writing this review! Hope you will tell others to read it too!
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“For years, I struggled to resist the diagnosis, trying to make Jessica normal, trying to fit her into the mold of my imagined future. But what I now see is the valuable lesson Jessica taught me. I was the one who needed to change.”
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