ISHANI NATH

WRITER

The gig Toronto-based Nath shares a touching memoir about her late mom with “My Mother’s Closet” (p. 84). Inner peace “Losing a parent to cancer teaches you how to live life on your own terms. I quit my job to pick myself up and rebuild my life. I started writing for fun; I took an art class; I travelled. I started remembering who I was, beyond someone who had lost her mother.”