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The author of the book “The Year I Couldn’t Cry,” Nancy Seberiano, was interviewed by Benji Cole of CBS Radio. They talked about the in-depth nature of the book’s theme and inspiration during the interview. Nancy described how she truly felt she was emotionally “locked up”—unable to cry, sleep, or feel normal after her daughter’s death. The process of writing became a necessary release: “All of the information in this book was locked in my memory … until I had the time to sit down and write it all out. This book was my therapy.” For Nancy, the memoir was not an artistic project; it was a spiritual act of survival.
In “The Year I Couldn’t Cry,” Nancy Seberiano delivers a raw and deeply personal memoir—a mother’s eyewitness account of enduring the unimaginable. Within just one year after the brutal murder of her daughter “Babe,” Nancy faced four funerals, navigated a high-stakes murder trial, and assumed custody of her two infant grandchildren. With courage born of grief, she chronicles not only the horror of domestic violence but the long, quiet transformation that followed.
Nancy Seberiano, the time of her daughter’s death, she was a 45-year-old bar manager. Her children had all grown up, moved away, and were starting families of their own. Shortly before the tragedy, she had launched her own hot sauce company and had just finished making a fresh batch at a local factory when Babe passed away.
Nancy writes with heartbreaking clarity. She begins at the moment the police called, telling her daughter was gone. From there, the narrative plummets into grief: funeral after funeral, custody battles, uprooting her life, and legal proceedings she never imagined she’d attend. Chapters move from emotional grief to courtroom strategy, family sagas to community whispers, capturing the full ripple effect of homicide. Nancy’s voice remains steady—even when tears don’t come, as the title suggests—because grief consumes before it can break the dam.
What sets The Year I Couldn’t Cry apart is Nancy’s unwillingness to veil her pain. She doesn’t write with caution, but with raw honesty—describing courtrooms, graveyards, sleepless nights, and stray moments of mercy and mercy alone. The narrative breaks open not just grief, but the several ways trauma builds. It memorializes lives lost, critiques systemic failure to protect, and uplifts what’s left—children, compassion, and community.
Nancy’s memoir does not promise closure—but it offers something more sustaining: presence, agency, and a born-again purpose. It insists you remember the victim, support survivors, speak truth, and shake complacency. That matters not only within courts—but in communities where silence persists.
“The Year I Couldn’t Cry” isn’t just a book—it’s a testament to what a mother will endure and reclaim. Nancy Seberiano does more than share a story; she offers a mirror for anyone who has wondered if their grief was valid—or if their life could ever be renewed.
Watch the full interview below: