Urgent, meditative, and searching, "Thank You for Staying with Me" is a collection of essays that explores home, womanhood, mother–daughter relationships, and young motherhood in the conservative religious landscape of the Ozarks. Using cosmology as a lens for human questions, Bailey Gaylin Moore writes of praying to the sky in moments of grief, watching a solar eclipse while reflecting on life in society’s penumbra, and turning to the galaxies to better understand herself.