2020 Honoree

2020 IAN Book of the Year Awards, Outstanding Memoir category winner

2020 IAN Book of the Year Awards, second place winner for Non-Fiction

". . . Chapman's prose offers vivid detail and self reflection. . . . A brave recollection of a shattering loss."

"So well written and so intimately candid, How Much Big Is the Sky: A Memoir of a Mother's Love and Unfathomable Loss is one of those memoirs that will linger in the mind and memory long after the book itself has been finished and set back upon the shelf. . . ."

2020 Winner in the Category of Grief

2020 Winner in the Category of Memoir

2020 Silver Medal Winner in the Category of Non-Fiction – Grief/Hardship

". . . Unmasking the raw emotional experience of sudden tragic news and the agonizing process of grief that follows with the loss of a child, Chapman's fearless and inspiring account takes readers through every stage with a full heart and immersive narration. . . . Author Sherry Chapman writes with literary confidence that makes readers feel as though they are in safe hands, even through the darkest and most emotionally precarious moments of this hard-hitting reading experience. Readers who have experienced similar sudden tragedies are certain to take heart and support when reading Chapman's account, and for those lucky enough to be ignorant of the experience, it's a true window into the soul and psyche that, once read, cannot ever be forgotten again. . . . How Much Big Is the Sky: A Memoir of a Mother's Love and Unfathomable Loss is an incredible and highly emotive work of memoir that is sure to touch the heart of anyone that reads it."