{"product_id":"dead-serious-how-death-made-me-laugh-at-life-9781958472491","title":"Dead Serious: How Death Made Me Laugh at Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eDead Serious: How Death Made Me Laugh at Life is a memoir that meets grief with grit, dark humor, and a stubborn love of life. Through her writing, Sarah Marie Shoulak chronicles a youth marked by close calls with death, major family losses, and the generational weight of sorrow-and shows us how those experiences can often shape our identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead of framing trauma as something you \"get over,\" Dead Serious explores what it means to live with loss: to keep laughing, healing, and choosing gratitude even when life feels unfair. With warmth and candor, Sarah writes about addiction and sobriety, reinvention, and the quiet work of becoming whole again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaw, funny, and deeply human, this book is for anyone navigating loss, recovery, or change-and trying to \"get better, not bitter.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Soul Speak Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781958472491\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d","brand":"Sarah Marie Shoulak","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52452306288821,"sku":"9781958472491","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_496ae910-1b97-4df8-a410-c14238e2165d.jpg?v=1776826655","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dead-serious-how-death-made-me-laugh-at-life-9781958472491","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}