Dispatches from Grief

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Selected as a Heather's Pick by Indigo "A profound and powerful look into the human condition." —David Brooks, New York Times columnist and bestselling author of The Second Mountain "Crittenden's words ring with truth, love, clarity, and courage." —Andrew Solomon, National Book Award–winning author of Far from the Tree and The Noonday Demon — On a February morning, Danielle Crittenden's world cleaved in two: the life before her daughter Miranda was found dead in her Brooklyn apartment, and the life after. In this luminous memoir, Crittenden maps the territory of profound loss with the clarity of a foreign correspondent filing reports from a country no parent ever wishes to visit. With unflinching honesty and unexpected grace, she chronicles not just the shattering impact of a child's death, but the strange