Clark County women share stories of failure, hardship, survival in ‘Omitted from my Obituary’
By Erin Middlewood, Columbian
Managing Editor for Content, and
The Columbian
Published: January 1, 2021, 6:00am
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Local women share their stories in "Omitted from My Obituary," available for $28 at Vintage Books in Vancouver and online at amazon.com. (Eric Holmes)Photo Gallery
In the new book, “Omitted from my Obituary,” women from Vancouver and beyond share stories of embarrassment, redemption, illness, epiphanies, pain, and identities lost and found.
Elizabeth Holmes and Lisa Keohokalole Schauer explain in the introduction that they published the book because they believe in the power of storytelling, but they wanted “to hear the stories of struggles of others instead of the sanitized versions we are often given of ‘it was really hard and then everything was great.’
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