
By: Maureen Stanton
ISBN: 979-8991456500
DLJ Books at Columbia State University Press, 2025
When Maureen and Steve met in their twenties, he'd left behind a difficult marriage and she had ended a troubled relationship. In each other, they found a passionate love and shared a dream of a living off the land in rural Michigan. Three years later, when Steve, at twenty-nine, was diagnosed with cancer, they embarked on an all-out effort to save his life. When Steve's childhood friend, Joey, a drug addict, learned that Steve needed money for experimental cancer treatments that insurance wouldn't cover, he offered to sell Steve's pain medication, a synthetic opioid with a high street value, to help pay the costs; only one of the friends would survive.
The Murmur of Everything Moving chronicles a young, working-class couple's odyssey through the medical mileu, as they navigate the terrain of illness and caregiving, of compassion and loss. This beautiful and aching memoir is ultimately a story of love―romantic, brotherly, and spiritual―in all its challenging but exquisite complexities.
About the Author

Maureen Stanton is the author of several award-winning books. Her essays and creative nonfiction have been widely published in numerous literary journals and anthologies. She’s received an Iowa Review prize, The Sewanee Review, Pushcart Prizes, the American Literary Review nonfiction award, the Thomas J. Hruska award in nonfiction from Passages North, the Penelope Niven Nonfiction Award from Salem College Center for Women Writers, a Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Maine Arts Commission, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She teaches creative writing at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
To learn more about Maureen Stanton and her work, please see www.maureenstantonwriter.com/

