be longing: a memoir about love and loss

by Shonna Beth Sommer

422 pages, Paperback

Published April 10, 2026

About the author

Shonna Beth Sommer is a life and career coach, community builder, and professional oversharer who has lived in California, Portland, and Medellín, Colombia—where she currently resides and has no plans to leave. She has spent the better part of two decades throwing parties, making strangers into friends, and writing extremely long emails that people somehow keep reading.

be longing is her first book, which she finished despite having too many feelings and too many therapists.

She can currently be found with friends, in nature, or somewhere between two flights—collecting experiences she insists are research for the next book.