NO HAPPY ENDINGS is a new memoir with more heartbreaking and hilarious meditations from Nora McInerny (Dey Street Books; March 26, 2019). Life isn’t always happy, but it isn’t the end—there will be unimaginable joy and incomprehensible tragedy through it all. As Nora reminds us, there will be no happy endings, but there will be new beginnings.
The New York Times says Nora’s podcast interviews are “a gift to be able to listen [to],” and her writing is no different.
Nora was grief-stricken by the death of her husband, father, and miscarriage of her second child within months of each other. A widowed, single mother of a young son, she found herself creating a new life from a series of unexpected choices.
Today, Nora is remarried, and mothers 4 children ranging from a toddler to a teen. Sounds like a happy ending, right? Sort of! But while her new circumstances bring her extraordinary joy (and hilarious stories), her life is tinged with sadness over her losses.
Nora is known for bringing heart and humor to the toughest of topics, using her personal story about living through loss, grief, and new beginnings to inspire a deep connection with people. In an interview, she can discuss:

• Humor, Grief, and Loss: Being a widow is awkward, and often humorous. Nora started the Hot Young Widows club, a group of women (and men!) who have been through significant loss and are helping each other get through it.
• Nonprofit Organization and Entrepreneurship: Nora has found meaning in her work launching Still Kickin, a nonprofit in memory of her late husband, which provides financial support to people going through awful things.
• Motherhood, Blended Families, and Feminism: Nora parents four children and is in love with two men, one dead and one alive.
• Internet, Storytelling, and Personal Narrative
• Cancer, Brain Cancer, Death, and Dying (and everything that goes along with it—doctors, health insurance, and why we shouldn’t have to crowdfund tragedy)

Nora brings empathy and wit to difficult subjects from gun control to sexual assault to healthcare, and has contributed to Elle.com, Cosmopolitan.com, Buzzfeed, Slate, Time, Vox, and more.

About the author: NORA MCINERNY IS a reluctant expert in difficult conversations. As the host of American Public Media’s Gracie Award winning podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking, Nora brings empathy and wit to difficult subjects from gun control to sexual assault. Nora is a contributor to Elle.com, Cosmopolitan.com, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, Buzzfeed, Time.com, Slate and Vox, where she’s often tapped for her essay pieces highlighting the emotional landscape and humor in complex topics, like the financial impacts of healthcare and grief in a digital age. She founded the non-profit Still Kickin and the Hot Young Widows Club, an online group of people who have lost their significant other.