Very grateful to Boston College Magazine — the alum magazine of my alma mater — for spotlighting Dead Dad Club in the Winter 2023 issue. BC was the place where I truly discovered creative nonfiction and its endless possibilities and nourishments, so this feels good.
Losing her father became the “central catastrophe” in both her life and her mother’s, Moulton said, and the book is about how they learned to live afterward. But it touches on something bigger. Because everyone has some sort of invisible loss they carry through life, the emotions in Dead Dad Club transcend the specifics of readers’ lived experiences. It’s a concept that brings Moulton back to music. “If you’re standing at a concert, singing along shoulder to shoulder with strangers,” she said in an interview, “everyone’s having their particular emotional experience, but they’re also deeply connected to each other.”