This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light

Dancing with the Stars powerhouse Holker’s memoir is emotionally charged and genuine. She writes of defying expectations her entire life, as a young dancer who was told she started too late with the wrong body type and later as a young single mother who followed her dreams and finally to her seemingly fairy-tale marriage with the late Stephen “tWitch” Boss. The memoir celebrates Holker’s love for her three children, her late husband, and dance. Themes of gratitude and forgiveness abound, and throughout the book she gives praise to those who helped her through the most difficult moment of her life, Boss’s suicide in 2022. Holker goes through the days before the event and after with raw emotion. There is still processing going on; the duality of her grief at losing her beloved husband and her anger at him for leaving their family are given equal footing. Holker lauds Boss and discusses how she learned new facts about depression symptoms after his death. It is heart-wrenching when she wonders whether she should have seen the signs of Boss’s struggles.