“When I got home, I breathed deeply and threw the contents of my suitcase on the floor, in a grand gesture, and saw something shift in the bottom. When I opened the hidden pocket, something fell out. The journal I thought was lost. That pink journal held my examination of divorce culture: poetry, essay, the past, the present. The bright lights, the takeaways, the guideposts.
The book’s pink cover glittered with golden stars. Radiant. White. Light. My words, the story, my testimony. It had been with me all along.”
This is a book that urges you to build the mantra you need right now.
As with the most powerful books, this one was born out of life’s deepest transformations. In Radiant.White.Light, author Mo Duffy turns the raw edges of divorce into luminous poetry and prose.
When her marriage ended after sixteen years, Mo began charting her own course through upheaval, heartbreak, and ultimately renewal. This book is both map and mantra: a meditation on what it means to lose the light, to wander through the dark, and to see the sun rise again. Sometimes heart-wrenching, sometimes celebratory, but always ethereal, Mo’s testimony offers a universal invitation to examine love’s most tender moments amidst the energetic current of loss.
“Duffy’s honesty and vulnerability resonate with emotional intensity.”
—Kirkus Reviews
From the shock of separation to the tenderness of vulnerability, from displacement to forgiveness, Radiant.White.Light. guides readers through rupture into possibility. It is a reminder that even though life will never be the same, it can still be radiant.
“Radiant.White.Light is a memoir that shimmers with both grief and grace. Mo Duffy reminds us that even in the undoing of a marriage, there is beauty, renewal, and the possibility of light.”
—Genevieve Loughlin, Co-Founder, Pownal Street Press
Pownal Street Press is honoured to announce the Winter 2026 publication of Radiant.White.Light: A Divorce Memoir in Poems and Stories by Mo Duffy.
Radiant.White.Light: A Divorce Memoir in Poems and Stories
9781998129737
$24.95| Paperback
Release Date: February 3, 2026
Radiant.White.Light. is a brave grief ballad about the unique pain that is a divorce. In this case, a split navigated with compassion and raw honesty. Mo Duffy’s poetic memoir has the power of Patti Smith, lit up by her own tender quest to understand who she’ll be after marriage. A must-read for any woman facing the path of begin again.”
—Marnie Woodrow, author of Heyday
About the Author
Mo Duffy is the Founder and Editorial Director of Pownal Street Press. With an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction, Mo is the author of four books: Unpacked: from PEI to Palawan (2017), The Chemistry of Innovation: Regis Duffy and the Story of DCL (2021), Crescent Moon Friends (2022), and A is for Anne (2023). Mo lives in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Find her online at https://moduffy.com/.
Pownal Street Press is PEI’s newest publishing house. Women-owned and women-led, friendly, warm and professional: We exist to give rise to brave stories, and to be a light for community and connection. With distribution through Raincoast Books (Canada) and Orca Books (US), Pownal Street Press’ titles have national reach but local heart. For more information about the Press and its books, please visit: www.pownalstreetpress.com.