Awake A Memoir

New York Times Bestseller

Sometimes the life you thought you’d built turns out to be a house of cards—and when it falls, you have to decide who you’ll become in the rubble. Awake is Jen Hatmaker’s raw, revelatory memoir about the night her twenty-six-year marriage shattered, and the fierce, messy journey of rebuilding herself from the ground up.

This isn’t a tidy redemption story. It’s honest in the best way—funny when it shouldn’t be, devastating when it needs to be, and ultimately hopeful without being precious about it. Jen pulls back the curtain on the myths we’re all handed: about marriage, faith, womanhood, and the stories we tell ourselves to keep the peace. She writes about grief and antidepressants and solo parenting five kids while trying to remember her own bank password. She writes about waking up—to possibility, to agency, to a second act that looks nothing like the script she was given.

Mel Robbins calls it inspiring and empowering. Elin Hilderbrand couldn’t put it down. But more than anything, Awake feels like sitting across from a friend who’s been through it and made it out the other side—not unscathed, but awake.

For anyone navigating loss, questioning old certainties, or simply ready to live more honestly: this one’s for you.

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