MOM’S BOOK—WENDY
by Wendy Goldberg
Forthcoming · August 2026 · Koehler Books
Wendy + Ben
When Wendy Goldberg’s son Benjamin “Ben” Goldberg was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, her life changed forever. From hospital rooms to quiet living-room moments, from heartbreak to resilience, Ben’s presence became the thread that wove this story together and inspired a movement of healing and community care that continues to unfold.
Resisting conventional narratives of illness or closure, MOM’S BOOK—WENDY offers a deeply intimate portrait of love as presence, inviting readers into a quieter, truer understanding of what remains.
For anyone who has loved deeply, felt unmoored by loss, or sensed the sacred within everyday moments.
The Story Behind the Story
This memoir is inseparable from the work of the Benjamin Goldberg Foundation, the nonprofit founded to honor Ben’s legacy by empowering children, caregivers, and communities through education, integrative programming, and advocacy of the healing arts. The foundation’s mission lives in every page and every essay of this book.
MOM’S BOOK—WENDY weaves personal story with reflection, exploring grief, intuition, creativity, and the ways meaning continues to unfold after everything changes. Told in a mosaic of moments rather than a straight line, it invites readers into the spaces where music, memory, and connection become guides.